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I’m sure you’ve heard some of them yourselves. “Ladies, and gentleman. Thank you for assembling! It’s is my great please to formally welcome you all to the fold of the AI. This will be your home base, your launch pad. Your home. You are more then welcome to come and go as you please. You can live here or you can continue with your previous arrangements as they suit you.” The professor talks quickly, a prim and proper delivery. It’s a little difficult to get everything but you understand the basics. “Allow me to introduce myself, I am Professor Shad. I shall be your representative and link to the Alliance Initiative proper while you settle yourselves in, and of course, get acquainted with one another. You may look to me as a mentor of sorts, almost a father figure, if you will.” He pauses looking off into the middle distance. Before snapping back to attention suddenly! “Yes. Now! On! To business! Elementa is the team leader! Congratulations! Listen to her, and work well together! Or else you could all die horribly, still! Never mind! Onward! You have each been provided with a communication device, state of the art! It will send you updates and alerts of anything that the AI would like you to investigate. Otherwise you are free to patrol as you wish. Work as a team or work alone. However, given some of the…. Unique circumstances that some of you find yourselves in, there will be additional resources provided. There will be an occult specialist arriving in the next few weeks. They will provide their support as and when you need it. Secondly, this base has a technician assigned to it to aid with any…. Ah, technical issues….” He glances at Opal. “…that may arise. You may contact them through the main terminal over there.” He points to a very big and very fancy looking computer, all manner of readouts and information running across its screen. “Should you have need to contact myself, you can do so through the same terminal. Otherwise I’ll leave you all to it. Should any of you wish to seek my advice, which naturally, you’ll want to. Send me a message and I shall get back to you as and when I can. I will of course be off site otherwise.” - - - - That was a few hours ago. Since then… something, had crawled up through the sewers and was attempting to eat people’s cars! Uh oh! The AI sent the mission briefing to you! Your first official mission! Oh jeez! Better not mess it up!  The location was downtown Halcyon, lots of businesses scattered here and there, and the going home from work rush hour traffic was not helping! Whatever this thing was, it was making it’s best attempt to chew it’s way through the car’s engines, and hell, it was succeeding! People ran screaming, which is when you guys arrive on the scene!  But as ever, things are never quite so straightforward! Everyone Professor Shad seems a kinda quirky guy, but there’s all kinds of rumours about him! Tell me one of them! They weren’t kidding when they said they’d be setting up an awesome state of the art base! Beyond the obvious living stuff like a kitchen and bathroom, tell me about a awesome feature that’s really caught your eye! You’ve all also been given personalised rooms in the base too! Other than the queen sized (or King size in Quill’s case) beds. What other things have been done to make your mark on your room? What have the AI provided to meet your specific needs? Daeva The magical energies flowing through the city have been really jumpy recently. That’s never a good sign! You’ve seen them get like this a few times before, tell me about one of those times! Also, Athena has been getting really tense recently. What do you think the cause of that is? Voidblade Dad is not happy, well, he never is, but what’s really ticked him off at the moment. Obviously he’s asking you to spy on the team and ‘slit their throats should they prove to be as corrupted as the scum that hides in the blackest cracks of this wretched city’. Are you going to be upfront about that to the rest of the team? I mean, it’s not the best way to make an impression! Elementa Why did this have to happen now?! You were going to try and meet up with that dashing lancer Fiero. You had a time arranged and everything! Maybe you could still make it if you can beat this thing quick? What were your plans for the day before this all kicked off. Also please make me a roll to see how your handling your obligations. Quill What a chaotic time it’s been! Since the AI took you from Dr Sands’s lab you’ve been far too busy to visit him! Thankfully it seems like the Alliance is paying you, and they’re certainly feeding and homing you as well. This whole running away thing has worked out even better then you can imagine! But do you feel guilty about not speaking to Dr Sands? And despite everything you’ve still spotted that Strider guy again. He’s not approached you, more like he’s letting you see him to remind you he’s there. But how do you feel about all of this? Opal Well… that was un unsubtle look by the professor. So they’ve put on someone to repair you should you get hurt. That’s… nice? Nice of them? Have you gotten curious and messaged the technician or are you ignoring it for now? Ferrina once told you about something like this slime creature. Do you think it’s the same thing? What did she tell you about stopping it? OM Unlike everyone else in the room, for you the Professor seems… out of sorts, like he’s somehow… overlayed over himself. Like he’s two separate images of himself laid on top of one another just not in line. No… you’ve seen this before, its some kind of psychic signal! Like something else is watching over the Professor’s sholder! Something fishy is going on. What are your suspicions? What do you do to confirm them? 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 Fre: -1 | Dan: +1 | Sav: 0 | Sup: 0 | Mun: 3 Potential: 0/5 | Conditions: Guilty Oh man, oh man, oh man. Why do things have to be so difficult? I wanted to wash the dishes and take out the trash like my mom told me to, but then I got called over to the new base! It's not like I could just ditch that, it'd make such a bad first impression. I know our team had gotten a lot of flak for the first mission, so I knew that I couldn't let them down like that. Bouncing around the city with my rubber legs, I managed to make it on time. Trying not to look like I was having a minor panic attack, we met up with Professor Shad. I found out pretty early on that having a mask helps hide that sort of thing. I've heard bits and pieces about Professor Shad. Primarily, that he was quite a bit of a womanizer. Like almost unbearably so. Whenever I saw him on the television, he was always trying to hit on the reporter. While I wondered about why Professor Shad was assigned to them in particular, he told the group that I was nominated to be the leader. Are you kidding me?! Part of the reason I was Elementa was so I didn't have that pressure put on me. Was it just something I couldn't escape from? Like some sort of cruel twist of fate? I tried to give a sheepish smile to everyone, trying my best to hide all the stress that was bubbling inside me. Spending time around the base helped alleviate the initial stress of being put into the team leader role. The place was amazing and was basically a second home. Through my initial look around the base, something that particularly caught my eye was an empty room that was attached to another room full of computers. Would you believe me if I told you that they had given us a bonafide training room!? It was basically the coolest thing ever. There were holographic simulators and obstacles and all sorts of fun things to try out. Those days of finding abandoned factories to practice my powers were no more. I think the sight made me almost cry. There was so much to do! I had to rush home and do a hacked-up job of the chores that I know mom wasn't going to be happy with, but I needed to personalize my room in the base. I decorated it with pictures of my brother and family, just as a reminder of home. I took some other things from my room at home to decorate my room at base such as posters of Fiero and Speedy alongside a corkboard with all of the things that I needed to do on it. I had an extra one lying about at home since I accidentally bought two one time. As I was decorating, I got a call from Fiero. He had asked Speedy for my number and wanted to hang out with me. We organized a time to meet up later on in the day and I succeeded in not sounding like an idiot. That was when I heard Eva shouting about cupcakes. There was no way in hell I was missing cupcakes. "Eva, you are amazing!" I squealed, taking one of the cupcakes and biting heartily into it. "Oh my god, this is soooo good! I didn't know you could bake!" I held back from taking two, mostly because I knew the others would want cupcakes too. They were so good though. I just wanted to savor the taste forever. I never expected Eva of all people to be able to bake so well. It never seemed like an activity that the Dread Specter would approve of. I was basically on top of the moon by this point, but of course, something had to happen. Trying to hide my disappointment, I rushed with the rest of the group to downtown Halcyon. In all of my brief time being a superheroine, I had never seen anything like the creature. As the thing began to eat an engine, I realized I probably wasn't going to make it in time to meet up with Fiero. I hope he doesn't feel too bad. Maybe if we defeat this thing fast enough, I'll still have a bit of time to meet him. At the same time, though, I didn't want to disappoint him, especially with how eager I sounded over the phone. "Ok everyone, let's be careful. We don't know what it's capable of, so let's not just rush in" I felt bad, I really did. However, we needed to defeat this thing. Fiero would understand if I told him, right? I gave myself a bit of time to calm down. This is it, my first mission as leader of the team. I needed to lead by example. I should be used to this. I am class president after all. I cannot mess this up. Taking Fiero and Speedy's advice to heart, I took a look at the situation. First thing's first, I need to find out why this monster is here. Standing a short distance away, next to a bright red sports car, I tried to see if there was anything I could observe about the nature of the thing that would help the team out. - - - - - <jimmydalad> Ok, I'm rolling for obligations <jimmydalad> !r 2d6+3 <Krysmbot> jimmydalad, 6+3 = 9 <jimmydalad> Going to lapse on house chores Using Game Face to mark Guilty and take +1 ongoing to all rolls in pursuit of defeating the monster <jimmydalad> Rolling to pierce the slime thing's mask <jimmydalad> !r 2d6+4 <Krysmbot> jimmydalad, 5+4 = 9 What are you really planning? jimmydalad fucked around with this message at 22:51 on Aug 16, 2016 |
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 Fre: 0 | Dan: -1 | Sav: +1 | Sup: +2 | Mun: +1 Potential: 0/5 | Conditions: None Eva was feeling a bit bummed. Surprising, yeah, what with the whole 'cool base' and 'own room away from home' and 'you're all legit heroes now' narratives going on. But she could not really help it. Arashiofordo3 posted:Professor Shad seems a kinda quirky guy, but there’s all kinds of rumours about him! Tell me one of them! First of all, Professor Shad. The guys was mad shady. And like, that was not just some hunch she had, because she had heard that particular title plus name combination before. Back when the Justicar was visiting a couple of months back, she had overheard him and Dad talking about him. Well, mentioning him at least. And while she had not been there from the beginning and probably missed some context, it still seemed like the man was somehow involved with vigilantes. Probably not one himself, and maybe not with dad himself (or maybe he did, Eva did not know), and hell, she did not even know in what capacity he was actually involved. But anybody who dealt with the same circles as Dad was inherently suspect. And speaking of Dad... Arashiofordo3 posted:Dad is not happy, well, he never is, but what’s really ticked him off at the moment. Obviously he’s asking you to spy on the team and ‘slit their throats should they prove to be as corrupted as the scum that hides in the blackest cracks of this wretched city’. Are you going to be upfront about that to the rest of the team? I mean, it’s not the best way to make an impression! Eva sighed slightly and gave her teammates a little glance. Her (mostly) good natured teammates, with fairly well-adjusted families, at least comparatively. ... Yeah, they already knew who her dad was. No need to burden them with unnecessary details. Just on the off-chance that they failed to appreciate Dad's particular style of rhetoric. ... Sheesh, this was a big day! Feeling a bit annoyed with herself for being so drat gloomy during such a special occasion, Eva was determined to find something to be happy about. Arashiofordo3 posted:They weren’t kidding when they said they’d be setting up an awesome state of the art base! Beyond the obvious living stuff like a kitchen and bathroom, tell me about a awesome feature that’s really caught your eye! You’ve all also been given personalised rooms in the base too! Other than the queen sized (or King size in Quill’s case) beds. What other things have been done to make your mark on your room? What have the AI provided to meet your specific needs? Well, at least the room was snazzy as hell! Way nicer than the run-down flats or grimly utilitarian bases Dad had them stay in. Widescreen TV, all the seasons of all her favorite cartoons, plus even some ones she had been kinda interested in checking out but never really had the time. She slid a finger across a row of blu-ray boxes. "Hah", she whispered under her breath, "At least that Shad guy has great taste in cartoons. Like, almost weirdly spot on." Other than that, it was the standard stuff. A bookshelf, a computer, like five huge bags full of knive- Eva grimaced. Those were Dad's bags. She hoped that they had been brought in by some third party AI affiliate. But on the other hand, Dad did not like other people touching his stuff... She sighed. Not much choice other than taking most of that stuff to the armory, whatever the case of their origin might be. Really, if she had not grown up surrounded by deadly weapons, Eva might have been a tad bit shocked as to how many weapons and weapon maintenance facilities AI was willing to grant children. Mighty irresponsible, that. But might as well take advantage of it since it was there. Not like she was going to sleep surrounded by swords, reminded her too much of home. Hell, maybe she should buy a stuffed animal or two to really bring the room together. So, she took one bag in each hand and lifted the rest with her mind, and set off. And really, she had to admit the armory was really well stocked. It even had arcane implements and some psionically resonant doodads. But even then, it was not the true gem she found in the base. "GUYSSS!", rang a shout in the hallways. "Have you SEEN this kitchen!" It was by far the fanciest kitchen Eva had ever been in. Tasteful marble tabletops, all kinds of specialty cookware, a giant freezer and huge amounts of fridge space and ingredients she could never have afforded and- This called for celebration. About forty minutes later, Eva sauntered to the lounge with a newfound spring in her step, and a smile adorning her face. "Hey! Anybody want a cupcake to celebrate our start as sponsored, proper capital H Heroes? Hell, take two if you want, I'm not stingy, hah!"  ________________________________________________________ Eva squatted on a rooftop, overseeing the strange black thing with an even gaze. Amorphous enemies were rare, but not unheard off. All were different, but they all tended to be difficult to cut with conventional tools. Thankfully she had more than 'conventional' at her disposal. With a practiced hand, she drew a strange looking, serrated blade with a little switch on the side. Once turned on, the vibroblade took on a low hum as it achieved resonant frequency useful for dispersing gels of all kinds. Nevertheless, yet was not the time to strike. Observe first, attack then. Foolproof planning and knowing your enemy was a cornerstone of a successful hit, after all. quote:Theantero: Rolling to Assess the Situation with the weird slime thing Also, I have the move Be mindful of your surroundings, so I get one extra question when assessing the situation before entering a fight. I ask the following: How could we best end this quickly? What here is in the greatest danger? What here can I use to disable the enemy? Theantero fucked around with this message at 17:17 on Aug 17, 2016 |
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Elementa What are you really planning? Looks like it's collecting the oil from the car's it's eating. Presumably for some kind of nefarious purpose. From the way it's moving it looks like some kind of automation? Like it's being remote controlled. But by what isn't clear. It hasn't seen you yet, so for now it's still eating cars, but watch out, this thing has a nasty bite! Voidblade How could we best end this quickly? From the looks of it, it's after the oil in the car engines, that certainly seems to be what it's made of. You could look to set it on fire. Though that might create it's own problems. But it would burn out pretty quickly, if you could find a way to contain the blaze safely. What here is in the greatest danger? The civilians who are trapped inside their cars, The monster doesn't seem too interested in their safety and is throwing cars around liberally once it's done with them. It's not gotten to anyone yet. But it's working it's way over to a few groups who are blocked in by the traffic! Unless you can find a way to free their cars, or free them from the vehicles, then they're at serious risk of getting munched on! What here can I use to disable the enemy? Well your blades would be next to useless against this thing. But there's something controlling it. It's not producing any kind of psychic signal, so maybe it's magical or scientific? Conversing with your team mates may lead to an answer. Ether their's something controlling it form within, which if removed would desable or destroy it. Or there's some mystical signs directing the spell! But it's going to come down to your teams advice. Ether way, this thing has got to be mindless, so there's got to be someone nearby who's sending it commands! Arashiofordo3 fucked around with this message at 23:26 on Aug 16, 2016 |
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Voidblade "Right, listen up", Eva intoned into her communicator, her clinical tone a stark contrast to the cupcake peddler she was just a scant hour ago, "First thing first: There are civilians in those cars the thing is humping. Somebody should probably make it a priority to get them to safety. Second, it exhibits no psionic activity, meaning it is mindless and controlled either by some sort of separate internal or external apparatus. Whether it is magical or mundane I can not say. Nevertheless, we need not be mindful of hurting or damaging it." "Should we decide to engage, know it is highly resistant to physical application of force, but highly flammable." Theantero fucked around with this message at 17:49 on Aug 17, 2016 |
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Opal I clap lightly when Elementa gets announced. Good for her! At least, I do until I remember how loud my hands sound when they come together. I shift uncomfortably and put my hands behind the back. Oh, and I even get a call out. Wonderful. This guy is just rubbing me the wrong way. Thanks so much, 'Professor'. Does he just have a thing against cyborgs? Still, I eye the giant console. That'll be nice, if anything really bad happens. It also means he thinks something really bad will happen. We break up and like most of the others, I go to check out my room. It's...weird, my room, but not my room at home. Part of my stomach twists. Would it be better for me to live here? Mom and dad would miss me, but wouldn't they be safer? I open the door, a jumble of conflicting feelings. Oh, nice bed. Good dresser. There's a low electrical hum, coming from a box tucked into the corner - neat, but clearly a later addition. A heavy power cord's looped around a stand. I reach back and itch the power port in the small of my back. Am I staying here? That can wait for another time. Can always decide tomorrow. Time to face the technician. A quick trip back to the main room and ridiculously elaborate terminal. A finger on a button and.... ...nothing. Nothing yet. Then a little message pops up. 'Your request has been filed.' "Thanks!" I call out to nobody in particular. "Hope that works when my fingers are broken." I flex them, just to remind myself they're not. There's something else. "Cupcakes!?" I call, popping into the kitchen. "Oh wow. Nice," I say to Eva, grabbing one. "Where'd you learn to do this?" I ask, although it comes out somewhat muddled, thanks to the cupcake in my mouth. ________________________________________________________ Team GO! "We...need a team name, guys," I say, as I run out with the others. We're in a loose circle on the street. I look over to Elementa, giving her a big grin and a thumbs up. "Uh....." I narrow my eyes and look at the creature. "That almost looks like an sumra...they're....like elementals, but for oil, not fire or water." I snap my fingers. "Water! Right! Ferrina told me about this time the AI, they had a *huge* one to fight out in Arizona. They couldn't hit it, they couldn't blow it up, but oil and water don't mix, so they corralled it and then froze it!" "None of you have freezing powers, do you?"
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 Fre: +1 | Dan: +1 | Sav: +1 | Sup: +0 | Mun: +0 Potential: 1/5 | Doom: 0/5 | Conditions: Location: Base -> Downtown Halcyon Want to know what's a lot better than living in an extra-dimensional apartment you forged for yourself while breaking into foreclosed homes in order to have a place to stay? This incredibly swanky base of ours, that's what. It's huge AND super sciencey as hell! I do my damnedest to not look impressed the whole time we're looking through it and even do a good job of it... until we get to the pool. The amazing, amazing indoor heated pool. Oh my god I want to just get in it already, it's going to be amazing for after missions! By the time we regather for the briefing from Professor Sad I'm thoroughly amazed by the setup, so of course he has to show up to ruin everything. Firstly he's way too smug and confident that he's some sort of father-figure after all of five seconds, but bigger than that's what Athena's mentioned to me about him... namely, those cigarettes of his? He borrows them off other people. Flashy techniques of his? Copied. He's absurdly lazy and doesn't honor his debts when he doesn't care about them. I don't trust him at all. He briefly gets my attention when Elementa is named team leader (I clap three times with mild enthusiasm while side-eyeing her - gotta play this cool after all, which is kinda hard since she's cute as hell) but otherwise I basically zone out. Got a lot to think about - SOMEBODY has to pay attention to the real dangers in the city, namely the fluctuations in the Gauntlet (the border between worlds) that've been occurring recently. Athena's worried about them too, but she won't tell me what's going on - says I need to figure it out for myself. Not that it's that hard... if something's messing with the Gauntlet, it means that either summon's trying to summon a spirit in, or some powerful entity has / is / is going to have / could try / whatever magic is complicated, point is something's all about crossing over into Halcyon City, and probably soon. Gotta figure out what of course, and hope it isn't Ahriman... Once the Sad Man's done yapping, everyone heads to check out their rooms, and who am I to break that convention? I'm pleased with mine the second I see it - it's got the Goth / Punk vibe I was going for at my parent's place, just way better done, and the magic doorknob and chalk outline I need to access my Sanctum is already up on the far wall of my room, obscured from the door by the heavy black curtains around my bed. I've got a patio too in case I want to smoke, and there's tons of the reagents I need for my spells in labeled mason jars on a shelf by the desk, and from the looks of it they even managed to furnish some acceptable alternate outfits for me in the closet - well done AI, this base continues to astound. And, as I leave to rejoin the rest of my team, there are suddenly cupcakes. "Oh cool... thanks," I tell Voidblade, taking a tiny bite out of the single one I selected for myself. Not sure why, but cake's never really been my thing, so I'm literally just being polite here - the silver lining being the cherry atop it. Things seem to be looking up for the team, if maybe not me in the long run... so why not celebrate a little? _________________ Oh yeah, because the city's inevitably going to be endangered and now it's our job to fix that poo poo - so much for celebration time. Responding along with everyone else as we dart into action and depart for downtown Halcyon, I've got barely enough time to finish a cigarette before we arrive at our destination, and from the looks of it we're up against some sort of crazy Oil Elemental. Voidblade's insistent it's being controlled by someone else - makes a lot of sense - while Elementa doesn't want us to charge in and get hurt. Opal, meanwhile, seems to have forgotten just who she's (un)lucky enough to have on her team, since she's asking about 'can anyone freeze things' with me right next to her! "Uhhh yeah Opal, it's easy," I report to her, rolling up my sleeves in an exaggeratedly grand gesture. Staring directly at the creature, I reach out with towards it with both hands, rotating my wrists as I do and staring at it all the while - and then snap twice in rapid succession, left hand then right. "Just watch this." Let's see how it deals with a Double Coldnsap spell lowering its temperature down to as close to absolute zero as I can possibly manage! <Rauri> Daeva Unleash Powers <Rauri> !r 2d6+1 <Krysmbot> Rauri, 4+1=5 Get potential. Rauri fucked around with this message at 05:16 on Aug 17, 2016 |
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OM Fre: +3 | Dan: +1 | Sav: +0 | Sup: +0 | Mun: -1 Potential: 0/5 | Burn: 0 | Conditions: Afraid Location: Base -> Downtown Halcyon OM wiped his brow as he made the last little adjustment to his room and stood up to admire his handy work. It had taken a good hour of work to get everything to his liking and the result was... Well it was something special, but it was a moving in present from his uncle, he couldn't really refuse it could he? "Alright. Let's see, dream traps?" Many dream traps of different shapes and sizes adorned the ceiling of the bedroom hung from a mesh of multicoloured crisscrossing yarn attached to the ceiling, if someone came into the room in a rush they might knock themselves out. "Check" "Joss Sticks?" Even now a haze that stunk to the high heavens of sandalwood and cinnamon was permeating the room, and probably the whole base. He perhaps thought that maybe just a little incense would work. "Check" "Sigils?" This has given him some difficulty as although the 'Gao & Son 99% Ghost Reduction Kit' has come with sacred multicolored chalks it didn't come with an instruction kit of what kind of things he was supposed to draw with them. He settled on using it to doodle monster designs all over the walls, he hoped the ghosts would be scared away by the grinning boogeymen drawn in pink chalk under the movie posters he took from home. "Check." "And sacred salt?" He looked down at the circle of salt that surrounded his bed in concentric rings, Jagganath was a boy who was in his way quite optimistic and thought the best of people, but he couldn't help but feel that 'Thrice-Consecrated Salt' meant 'Thrice the price of regular table salt'. Still better safe then sorry, there was enough ghost warding jim-crockery in this room that no ghosts within a hundred miles would approach the place. Probably. He settled down in front of his desk, tucked away in the one corner of the room that wasn't filled with ghost repellent and spiritual knick knacks, so that was it, he was a superhero now, with his own base and everything, at least that is what Professor Shad said. 'Father figure', there was something about the way he said that, that made OM's brain give him a nudge... Yes didn't he have a student? Some kid who has the natural talent but not the training, trained with Professor Shad and then seemed to vanish off of the face of the earth suddenly. And then the Professor said he never trained anyone and never took any students, odd that. That wasn't what set tiny tinkling bells off inside of his head though, it was the part where someone one else was present in the room and no one else noticed. Yes, Uncle Gao had taught him about that, Psychoempathic Synchronization or Borrowing as he called it, you ride inside the mind of someone or something else and see their world from their perspective. Not controlling them not as such, just watching, listening, experiencing. Using it against animals is one thing, but a human being who didn't allow you in was incredibly difficult, even normal unattuned people can feel something is amiss when a foreign move slips into theirs. This didn't feel like a forced melding though, it seemed as if there were awkward pauses in the Professor's speech to us, like someone was telling him the lines off of a script from off-stage and no one else could hear them. It's only a hunch right now, but he best confirm it with Daeva or Voidblade later, they might have noticed it too. Something caught OM's attention, he stepped over the salt rings, ducked under the ghost traps, opened the door to unleash the musky smell of burning spices into base, ran past the teleporter room (A two way system made between the AI HQ at the centre of the city, and to the base itself) and then at a dead run screeched to a halt in the kitchen. "I heard someone mention baked goods, I came as soon as I could!" --- And then we were here. And there is the horrible oil monster and what do we do here? Perhaps incase it in something? No it would just ooze out, and holding a liquid with telekinesis is difficult before we even consider things like size, and it resisting your efforts to hold it. But then OM picks up Voidblade's thoughts. "Mind holding me for a moment? Don't panic." And then he slumped a little. The world went strange. "I've got to get a better method of doing that" said the mind of OM temporarily seperated from his body, with a very complicated bit of mental gymnastics he extended himself outwards. Someone was here who shouldn't be here... TheNabphone> OM is gonna extend his senses to look for a controller. <TheNabphone> !r 2d6+3 <Krysmbot> TheNabphone, 6+3 = 9 <TheNabphone> Hmmm, anyone wanna ping a team my way? >Otherwise I'll mark Afraid Fear, intense desperate fear, this was the problem with doing this of course. Emotions were very easily transferred to a free floating mind without the fleshy bits of the brain in the way to shield it, and he could feel it coming off of the trapped drivers and the running pedestrians in spades, if he didn't get out soon it would start choking his soul But in the fog of concentrated mind numbing terror, was one thought out of place. "Gotcha." He slammed back into his body, and swore. TheNabster fucked around with this message at 13:35 on Aug 17, 2016 |
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Opal "Watch what? Dae, this isn't the time for jokes," I say, snorting a bit and looking about. "Hey! If we break open those fire hydrants, maybe we can coral it, give OM time to....I dunno, do whatever it is he's doing." I take a look over at OM, going limp, getting propped up by Voidblade.
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Voidblade "Om has detached his mind", Eva intoned evenly into the communicator, "Presumably to look for something. I'd guess our mystery blob-controller."
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Daeva You snap your fingers and send your spell out. But rather then flying directly out at that big ol' oil beasty. The currents of magic ripple strangely. Alarmingly almost! At first, nothing happens. Then? Then it starts snowing. Snowing heavily. A full on blizzard jumps up across the whole street! You can see the borderline where the sun is still shining. Oh good grief! That's going to make things interesting! Also it's god drat freezing! OM It's not far away, a couple streets over to the left, there's a small mental signal, like something specifically looking to hide their signal. Some kind of magic? Whatever it is, it's pretty amateurish. Now you know what you're looking for it's kind of amazing you didn't see it before. That said you were distracted by a big Oil Monster. Whoever they are, they're giggling madly, muttering something about 'my plan' and 'hahahaha' and 'take my vengeance' and 'recognise my genius' and 'I'll show them! I'll show them all!' So, yeah, defiantly your guy. What do you do? EDIT: Also, Team for the scene! Basic Team: 2 If the leader has Influence over every teammate, add another Team. No If everyone has the same purpose in the fight, add another Team. Yes If any team member mistrusts the leader or the team, remove a Team. No If your team is ill-prepared or off balance, remove a Team. No Team set to 3 Arashiofordo3 fucked around with this message at 18:59 on Aug 17, 2016 |
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Fre: -1 | Dan: +1 | Sav: 0 | Sup: 0 | Mun: 3 Potential: 0/5 | Conditions: Guilty Ok, so maybe we weren't having the best start. Yes, we managed to gather information, but then people started acting on their own without even telling me what they were doing. First Daeva tried to show off and only succeeded in making it snow and then Om went unconscious apparently trying to find who controlled this thing. Of course, he didn't tell anyone what he was doing and it was only because Voidblade had similar powers that they had any clue what he was doing. "Daeva, we'll worry about getting rid of the snow later." I called out. "Let's just deal with the situation right now. Quill, you and Om work together to find the person controlling this thing when he wakes up. Voidblade and Opal, focus on saving people and making sure that they are safe. Daeva, work with me to deal with this monster, but be careful about the civilians and don't do anything stupid again." I probably could've worded that better, but I wanted to get things back in control. I can worry about hurt feelings later. Running towards one of the fire hydrants, I changed my arms to steel and channeled all my frustration at that moment into destroying the fire hydrant. The aim? Shoot water right at the creature. Opal said that it had a weakness towards it and I am willing to take any advantage I could get. Plus, there was something therapeutic about being able to smash things. <jimmydalad> Rolling to directly engage the monster via water from a fire hydrant <jimmydalad> !r 2d6+2 <Krysmbot> jimmydalad, 12+2 = 14 Resisting or avoiding their blows and creating an opportunity for my allies jimmydalad fucked around with this message at 18:45 on Aug 17, 2016 |
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Opal Detached his mind? That sounds super uncomfortable. Opal's eyeing a fire hydrant when Elementa makes her call. "Dig it!" Opal replies, and gives a Voidblade a skeptical look. The cyborg breaks into a run, heading towards the closest car. Opal grabs the door and finds it stuck, thanks to some severe warping in the frame. Her feet dig into the pavement and her hands grip the door harder, trying to yank it free. Platonicsolid> .roll 2d6+0 <Platonibot> Platonicsolid: 7 (2d6+0=5, 2) <Platonicsolid> Okay, Opal's exposing herself to danger.
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 Fre: +3 | Dan: +1 | Sav: +0 | Sup: +0 | Mun: -1 Potential: 0/5 | Burn: 0 | Conditions: Afraid Location: Downtown Halcyon "Quill, you and Om work together to find the person controlling this thing when he wakes up." "Way ahead of ya boss..." Om said groggily, as he pulled himself up from Voidblade's gentle hold. A small part of him was rather glad about that. "I found fifty plus people frightened out of their lives so much that it put the willies up me too." He shivered, such a raw emotional response had him feeling all nervy. "And one nutter over that-away." He said pointing towards the source of the madly giggling suspect. "He was giggling all over and muttering about revenge and plans and such, it was pretty hard to ignore. Let's get 'im." He went to head that way, and stumbled. "Ah pissing blimey not in front of my friends please. Quill could ya err, help me out here? I need a moment to remember how to use my legs." TheNabster fucked around with this message at 19:03 on Aug 17, 2016 |
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Fre: 0 | Dan: -1 | Sav: +1 | Sup: +2 | Mun: +1 Potential: 0/5 | Conditions: None Eva's response to her leader was immediate. With a graceful, probably more dramatic than necessary glide she jumped from the roof of the office building, slowing down her fall enough to catch herself on the palms of her hands, which were immediately continued into a number of flips on a direct course to the car nearest to the monster. Her sword too followed, carried by her mind, the vibroblade dragging itself on the asphalt with a horrifying screech as the supersonic vibrations sent a veritable flood of hot sparks into the air between the monster and her. Unless the controller of the thing was a total moron, the flammable monster should recoil from such a show. Eva couldn't help but smirk. She had picked the right weapon for the job after all. quote:Theantero: Rolling Savior to save Civvies from blob monster (+2 from using civvie location knowledge and 'monster is flammable' knowledge) Right, diving in to save the civvies. Using my swerds and psychic powers to free them if necessary, then punting them (gently!) to safety. Adding one to Team pool.
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Fre +1| Dan -1 | Sav +1 | Sup +2 | Mun +0 Potential: 1/5 | Conditions: "Quill, you and Om work together to find the person controlling this thing when he wakes up." "On it!" I was eager to help. The snow was beautiful, but as it fell harder I wondered if it might effect any flight I might attempt. I frowned and closed my wings up, the less snow I let fall on my feathers the better for later. It was wonderful to see but I had work to do. Om asked for a hand and I was right there to hook my arm under him "No problem Om. Let me know how I can help, I'll do it." Supporting all of his weight, helping him walk again, I headed in the direction Om had pointed to. "Can you tell me when we are getting close to this guy, I wanna catch him by surprise. If I can, I mean it's not easy with these feathers but I don't want him disappearing." "Once you become close to this controller, my child, rise up into the sky to catch this foul creature unawares from behind." "I'm going to do what can Az, but I've never flown in snow before, I don't know how it will change things." I turned back to Om, shrugged and rolled my eyes "Angels? What can you do."
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Fre: +1 | Dan: +1 | Sav: +1 | Sup: +0 | Mun: +0 Potential: 1/5 | Doom: 0/5 | Conditions: Location: Downtown Halcyon Ah gently caress, I really messed that one up. Talk about Paradox - I just made a half a block blizzard or something and it didn't even impact the monster at all. Should've accounted for the flows of magic being whimsical and warped today, but I forgot to... rookie mistake. I'm just glad no one got hurt. Well, scratch that - one person did, but it's me so no big deal. Since yeah, I can confirm the girl you have an impossible crush on telling you to not do anything else stupid after your first mistake, yeah that does indeed loving suck to hear. I can't help but roll my eyes at Elementa, hoping that she's not looking, and then I also can't help but put my hands in my coat pockets since I'm positively freezing now with this insane blizzard I've made. Elementa springs into action and she's paired me up with her, so at least there's that silver lining to all of this. She leaps over to a fire-hydrant and destroys it, perfectly sending a blast of water right at the Oil Creature. It's exactly half of the formula that Opal called for, and the next part would be to freeze the water that's blasting it apart. But... I'm not sure I can. I just hosed that spell up since I was trying to show off, and while practice makes perfect or whatever, is now really the time for it? Gritting my teeth against the cold and my self-doubt, I rush towards the damaged hydrant, pulling my arms out of my sleeves as I start up the somatic components for my spell. "Don't worry, I'm not doing anything 'stupid'," I report to Elementa as I focus on the creature and the water flowing towards it. A glowing blue arcane seal appears in midair in front of me as I complete my efforts, and I'm pretty sure I nailed the spell this time. While I'm actually just using another freezing spell, I'm going to give this one a name outloud, see if that doesn't focus me. "Ice Nine!" <Rauri> Daeva Directly Engage <Rauri> !r 2d6+1 <Krysmbot> Rauri, 10+1=11 Resist or avoid their blows, impress / surprise / frighten it Rauri fucked around with this message at 08:30 on Aug 18, 2016 |
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Fre: +3 | Dan: +1 | Sav: +0 | Sup: +0 | Mun: -1 Potential: 0/5 | Burn: 0 | Conditions: Afraid Location: Downtown Halcyon "I'm not sure mister I don't meet many angels, stop here he's over this building" Om looked down both ends of the street. "Either of these alleyways will take us to the street, but give them a lot of space to see us coming, and I'm not a big fan of long distance running myself." "Do you wanna try flight to the roof or perhaps we take one route each and cut him off if he takes fright?"
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Fre +1| Dan -1 | Sav +1 | Sup +2 | Mun +0 Potential: 1/5 | Conditions: "Ok," I whispered, checking the surrounding area was clear. "You're right, we should get him from both sides. If you feel up to walking round the corner and catching this guy by surprise, I'll fly up above and drop down behind him so we have him trapped. You get one route, and I'll get the other. I'll put my best scary face on." I winked, reassuringly, although maybe I was trying to reassure myself more than anyone. I spread my wings out and stretched them, shaking my feathers free of the falling snow. I'd flown in bad winds before, I can do this! "I'll get high up, leave you enough time to get into the alleyway and then I'll drop down behind him. As long as this storm doesn't rock me off course." flying through the snowstorm: 2d6+1 8 Mark a condition: Angry Leaving the safety the buildings, the winds picked up heavily, the snow getting in my eyes and the cold snap biting at my bones, I faltered. My wings were strong but I hadn't anticipated how the cold would rock through me the higher I got. "Focus, child!" "drat! I am focusing! What do you think I'm doing, this isn't as easy as it looks." I spotted the shape of a person half way down the alleyway and pushed my wings to get me there. Hell, the storm was hiding my approach, so I suppose it was actually working for the best. "Easy Patience, turn into the wind more." "God drat back seat drivers!" Scarlettsmiles fucked around with this message at 16:43 on Aug 18, 2016 |
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Fre: +3 | Dan: +1 | Sav: +0 | Sup: +0 | Mun: -1 Potential: 0/5 | Burn: 0 | Conditions: Afraid Location: Downtown Halcyon Whilst Quill took to the skies, Om snuck into the alleyway, carefully making his way around the corner. He still felt the mind of the perp from here, and waiting until Quill was in position. 'Right', thought OM, 'Let's actually see if this will work for once, it'll be better then mind blasting first surely.' Om crouched and then in one movement, leapt around the corner, and shouted. "You're nicked chum!" 18:21 TheNabster OM is gonna use a policeman voice on the Perp. To provoke him to not moving or immediately lashing out by throwing them off balance. 18:21 TheNabster !r 2d6 18:21 Krysmbot TheNabster, 6 = 6 18:21 TheNabster Hmmm 18:22 TheNabster Can I +1 from acting on information received from Voidblade? I think I can. >If I can, I choose "They stumble: you take +1 forward against them." If not, I'll take Potiential next post. There was an awkward silence for a moment, it sounded better in his head "Don't you run away, I mean it!" Yeah good one OM, that'll really put the willies up them. TheNabster fucked around with this message at 18:43 on Aug 18, 2016 |
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Snow Day Well this was going swimmingly! The sparks flew up and the creature reared back, releasing the car it was about to chew on! And with perfect timing the water hit the monster right in the chest and immediately started to melt away at it! Then Daeva’s spell it it and it began to freeze! Awesome! Then it got scared. It turned and with a turn of speed that was unexpected it took off running. Smashing more of the traffic out of the way in its attempt to flee! One of them flew right at Opal! Thankfully she and Voidblade had managed to get the civvies out of the way! But it was still going to hurt! [Opal, take a powerful blow] Well that was all well and good, but now it was getting away from you! I’s going to get out of the snow zone soon! You better get after it! Who knows what damage it could do! Alleyway shenanigans! Om yells out and the man looks up and flinches. Okay, it was pretty weak, but he reacted! That’s good!  “NO!” He shreaked! “NO! You’ll never take me alive! HAhahaHA!” Then he right straight into the wall… …Dude… With a moment to recover what little compsure and dignity he has left he takes off running up the other way, but with all the grace of a drunken horse. It's pretty obvious though, this guy's a Guttermage! a low level caster who's still got a little bit of kick too him. What's more, now you've spooked him, you can feel a greater resonance in the energies. There's multiple sources of power! But they're close, maybe two more? Look like you’ve got a chance to grab this one though! Especially if Quill ‘drops in’!
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Fre +1| Dan -1 | Sav +1 | Sup +2 | Mun +0 Potential: 1/5 | Conditions: Angry Dropping out of the sky with great speed, she lands in the alleyway, in front of the mage. Full of rage and fury, she rises and spreads her wings out, letting them transform into harsh, glistening metal, spreading out the feathers till the Quill-tips touched the walls, filling the alleyway "That's enough!" She says it, slowly and fiercely, laced with threat. I was ready for a fight, if I needed to. Taking a step back, I braced myself to move quickly, should he try and go for a blow.
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Fre: -1 | Dan: +1 | Sav: 0 | Sup: 0 | Mun: 3 Potential: 0/5 | Conditions: Guilty Sweet! Our combination worked! I turned to Daeva and gave her a hearty thumbs up. Partly it was because I wanted to cheer her up while the other part was because that spell was awesome and actually hit its target. It was a minor victory, but bigger victories come from a succession of minor victories. So long as we kept this up, this mission will be an easy success. Sure, it was snowing, but it probably could've been a lot worse. Making a mental note to talk to Daeva about that. Where the hell did that creature think it was going? As I watched it try to run away, I could feel a fire burning inside me. No way was I going to let it get away, not after we made so much progress towards beating it. Changing my legs to rubber, I started bouncing down the road, getting progressively higher and faster as I chased down the creature. I had it my sights and I wasn't going to let this mission fail. I had to succeed. Once I was right above the creature, my legs changed back to normal while my arms changed to steel. With the aid of gravity, I brought my fists down hard on the back of the creature. I was going to destroy it, for the good of the mission and the team. <jimmydalad> Ok, rolling to directly engage the monster from behind <jimmydalad> !roll 2d6+2 <Krysmbot> jimmydalad, 6+2 = 8 Going to create an opportunity for my allies by trying to prevent it from running
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Opal Fre: +2 | Dan: +2 | Sav: 0 | Sup: +1 | Mun: 0 Potential: 0/5 | Conditions: None Yank yank yank. The metal groans and finally pops off past the car. Opal stumbles a step back from the force. She has not, entirely, or really at all, been paying a lot of attention to the battle around her. The rampaging creature comes straight at her, neither of them expecting her to be there. <Platonicsolid> Taking a Powerful Blow <Platonicsolid> .roll 2d6+0 <Platonibot> Platonicsolid: 9 (2d6+0=5, 4) Given the context, will ground Opal topples back, losing her balance despite the best efforts of her spinning gyros. Thump. She's down, with snow quickly coming towards her!
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Fre: +1 | Dan: +1 | Sav: +1 | Sup: +0 | Mun: +0 Potential: 1/5 | Doom: 0/5 | Conditions: Location: Downtown Halcyon "Ha." I remark in pleasant surprise after our combo attack lands without anything going wrong. It's cool to watch the water rapidly freeze, the mixture not at all good for the Oil Elemental. I'm still freezing and it's snowing everywhere, so it's very possible those actually contributed to me working the spell so precisely. But then Elementa gives me a thumbs up, and oh wow I'm starting to feel a little bit warmer. I return one of my own, it's even kinda-enthusiastic which is a big get from me for anyone on the team. Don't want to betray the crush I definitely have on her, so still playing things casual here. She goes streaking off down the street after the Elemental, which seems to pretty accurately have decided its going to need to get away from us if its going to have any chance of success. Unfortunately that means breaking through a bunch of cars, which isn't exactly all that ideal - guess she's determined to put a stop to it as quickly as possible. Good idea, maybe bad (but cool to watch) implementation? I mean, she's definitely scattered the monster some - but from the looks of things its not done yet, and she's paying way too little attention to her own defense. Taking a couple steps forward as I mumble a few mystic syllables of power, my hair and coat billowing due to the blizzard and at the force of my magick, I then gesture towards my teammate. The spell I have in mind is basically all about warping the space around her, in an effort to ward off any attacks the creature might present. As I finish channeling I twist the fabric of reality just a tiny bit around her, meaning that there'll be no way for this thing to retaliate against her for a moment or two when she has her guard up again. Unfortunately I can tell I've botched it a little, it's going to be a lot narrower of an effect than I anticipated - so I shout really quick "Elementa hold still!" and hope she trusts me enough to do it. I'm just trying to help! <Rauri> Defend Elementa <Rauri> !r 2d6+1 <Krysmbot> Rauri, 5+1=6 <Rauri> ugh Elementa if you want to spend a point of team that's a success and I'll take Influence over Elementa, will also choose to expose self to risk due to Daeva concentrating on defending her instead of protecting herself. Otherwise failure + marking potential. Rauri fucked around with this message at 08:48 on Aug 19, 2016 |
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Fre: -1 | Dan: +1 | Sav: 0 | Sup: 0 | Mun: 3 Potential: 0/5 | Conditions: Guilty It was only when I heard Daeva call out to me that I realized the situation I was in. poo poo, I needed to react fast. As soon as I hit the ground, I stopped moving instantaneously. My heart was pumping and I had no idea what Daeva was doing. I knew that I had to trust my team, though. Leading by example was one of the fundamentals of being a good leader. I gave a brief, scared look over towards Daeva as I felt the creature right next to me. Going to spend 1 Team to boost Daeva's Defend action to a 7, meaning that it becomes a hit.
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Opal Fre: +2 | Dan: +2 | Sav: 0 | Sup: +1 | Mun: 0 Potential: 0/5 | Conditions: None Gah, down here in the snow. poo poo. Ow. I think I sprained something. Thanks, mysterious overlords, for leaving me with just enough left to sprain. I feel myself get yanked, as if somebody's grabbing my hand, but they're not. Except htey are, because I can feel the pull.... I rise up out of the snow and see Voidblade. She's probably smirking or something. Ugh. The monster's still plowing ahead, so I turn and give chase. My feet crunch easily through the snow Dee created, and then I'm on it, tackling the monster with a punch! <Platonicsolid> .roll 2d6+2 <Platonibot> Platonicsolid: 5 (2d6+2=2, 1) <Platonicsolid> Oh,t hat was to directly engage. <Platonicsolid> :-( And I miss! FML!
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Fre: 0 | Dan: -1 | Sav: +1 | Sup: +2 | Mun: +1 Potential: 0/5 | Conditions: None Smirking ever so slightly under her mask, Eva took on a steady jog some distance behind Opal. The communicators, for their part, cracked to life once more. "Remember that the creature is amorphous", Eva spoke, "Unless it is fully frozen and thus ready to be shattered you are unlikely to achieve much but get yourselves stuck by engaging is traditional melee."
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Theantero posted:...you are unlikely to achieve much but get yourselves stuck by engaging is traditional melee..." Oil, Oil, Toil, and Trouble Says Voidblade, almost prophetically. Elementa hit the creature in the back, cracking the ice shell that had formed. And PLUNGING her arms up into the oily form! The slime immediately constricted upon her, trapping her and locking her in place! From the back another face formed, leering evilly at the stuck heroine! There's something creepily human behind it's eyes, from the flicker of intelligence, to the fact that it seems to be really drawn to her bare legs! Did it just lick it's lips? Ew! Gross!!! What's more gross is that it's starting to suck you into it's body! Legs first! You can already feel it squirming around your boots! Like a multitude of hands grabbing at your ankles! Ew! Ew! EW! It bites down, and BANG!! Smashes into Daeve's defensive barrier! A massive bite appears out of the sidewalk below you! You can feel the force of the bite! Even your steal body wouldn't be able to withstand another bite! It seems to be chewing at the moment. But it's getting ready for another go! Elementa - You've been saved from getting eaten, for now. But it's squaring up for another go, and you're still trapped! Opal on the other hand, smashes into it's leg, thinner and a lot more frozen, Shattering through it! HAHA! Yes! The beast begins to topple, it doesn't react to it until it's too late. Looks like Elementa's distraction worked! Okay she's now trapped and upside down, but that's not so bad. Kinda. Well anyway, thoom! It hits the ground an writhes about trying to get itself upright again. Daeva, you've got a front row seat to almost seeing Elementa getting those lovely legs of hers removed from her torso! Good work on the spell, but she might not have even been stuck if you'd been a little better on your spellwork. Unfortunately you've been barely focusing on what's going on around you. The Sparks from Voidblade's sword seems to have set alight some of the leaking fuel from one of the munched on cars! And it's slowly snaking it's way back towards what can only be described as a 'accidental bomb hazard'. What the hell do you all do? Interrogating the homeless like Batman "No! Please! You don't understand! He'd destroy me and consume my soul!!" The Guttermage begs, it seems kinda unhinged, and also... ARMED! He's got a knife, he looks pretty desperate. He's holding the blade to his palm, looks like he's got a spell prepped, but who knows what it could be. Bloodmagic was dangerous and unpredictable. - - - Up above, on the roof, someone unseen looked down on the conflict in the alleyway. A grimace on their face. "Tut tut tut, I hoped for more. They are but children. Maybe they'll improve? But It's SO very disappointing." They mutter to themselves. Standing up slowly, and walking at the pace of someone in a museum. As though studying the scene of a painting in the greatest detail. Again they looked down, this time on the Oil monster and it's dramatic twist. "So this is what you use my power for? Stealing the crushed bones of the Thunder Lizards? Have the magi of this plain become so weak and unimaginative? Perhaps I should just wipe them out now...? It raised it's hand into the air, and then pauses. Glancing over it's shoulder. "Oooh? So, you are coming...! Well now, this might even make it a fair fight. I'll spare your toys... for now." "I'll steal your children's spirits, then their trust of each other, and finally, when all is dust and ruins, I'll steal your life! But first things first." It glances back to the team, desperately fighting down below. "You have your chance to steal victory today. Good luck...! Hehehehe!" With a snap of their fingers they seem to disappear. Vanishing from sight.
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Fre: -1 | Dan: +1 | Sav: 0 | Sup: 0 | Mun: 3 Potential: 0/5 | Conditions: Guilty, Insecure It was an instant, but I just watched as everything fell apart before me. Voidblade's warning came too late and by the time I had already sunken my fist into the monster, it had already sucked me into its sickening grasp. It felt so disgusting and the smile that it gave me sent shivers down my spine. I had followed Daeva's instructions and held still as it tried to eat me, flinching every time the barrier around me clanged from the monster's attacks. As I stood there, watching the monster try to kill me, I came to the realization of just how far out of my depth I was, especially when compared to my teammates. I couldn't do anything. I couldn't attack it because of its nature and my super senses had no offensive value in battle. I was effectively useless, especially since I was now entangled within the creature. I couldn't move. It was almost as if the world around me disappeared. What the hell am I doing? Why am I even here? All the times where I had to be saved by people just started to come back to me. Speedy, Fiero, and now my team, the team I was supposed to lead. How can a leader let herself get into this situation? Why was I even elected leader? Voidblade was so much more competent and had experience. Daeva was able to cast strong magic and Om had better skills in tracking people than I ever could. Quill could fly and had the most amazing wings and Opal was a cyborg. All of them seemed so fantastical, so amazing and so strong. Then there's me. I don't have any of that. I was boring and my powers in comparison were weak and dull. I just kept on getting myself into danger, thinking I could help the situation, but instead make it worse because of my own stupidity. How could I face my team after this as a leader? The world around me didn't exist. I was only vaguely aware of what was going on. All these thoughts just clouded my mind and a sense of emptiness began to swell. My team must think I'm worthless. They probably regret putting me as the leader. They probably think I'm a liability. When I think hard about it, I probably am a liability. Just a girl in over her head. Going to mark Insecure due to the severe emotions of self-doubt she's going through at the moment.
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Fre: +1 | Dan: +1 | Sav: +1 | Sup: +0 | Mun: +0 Potential: 1/5 | Doom: 0/5 | Conditions: Location: Downtown Halcyon OK, good news and bad news here. Good news is Elementa's still got her legs - and the obvious bad news is that that was even momentarily in doubt. It'd be such a waste! Also, uh, she's my teammate and I don't want to see her get hurt and all that. It's great that my spell worked and all, but it's left her trapped inside it and the beastie seems all too determined to settle the score with her - I wait for a moment or two, just watching her, waiting for the moment when she punches free and sends it flying in all directions... But then that doesn't happen, and I start to get really worried. I know my magic didn't fail - I can literally feel its presence nearby - but what if it wasn't enough? What if she's still getting hurt?! I barely have time to think about the power keg the spark I see is racing towards, Elementa's in danger and it's up to me to save her! "I got you Elementa!" I declare to no one in particular, my hands once again begining to weave a pattern throughout the air. A fundamental truth of the universe is that Distance is A Lie - All is One, and One is All. In this particular instance, that means that Elementa's just as much next to me as she inside the oil monster. I want her next to me after all, since it's loving cold in this blizzard I made and my jacket's seen way better days so its not exactly that insulating, so let's make that happen! It's easy enough for me to lock onto her pattern when she's inside the area of my other spell, and with just a flick of my wrist... <Rauri> Daeva Unleash Powers to Reshape Environment <Rauri> !r 2d6+1 <Krysmbot> Rauri, 10+1=11 She's free and standing next to me, looking slightly confused at the sudden change in scenery - and, perhaps, a little shell shocked beyond that! I've seen the same look on my face dozens of times when I've woken up from a nightmare, so I think I've got a pretty good handle on what she needs now. As much as I'd love to hug her and tell her everything's going to be OK, we don't have time for it - which leaves me with just the second option. As such, I slap her really quick, then point towards the spark I ignored for her sake with that same hand, doing my absolute best to look stern and not like I'm somehow thinking about kissing her bruises better and so much more in the middle of our fight. "We are kicking this thing's rear end, but I don't want to start another blizzard - mind putting that out for me?" Rauri fucked around with this message at 09:22 on Aug 20, 2016 |
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Fre: -1 | Dan: +1 | Sav: 0 | Sup: 0 | Mun: 3 Potential: 1/5 | Conditions: Guilty, Insecure Wait a minute, I'm not stuck anymore? I knew one moment that I was stuck in the creature, but now I was next to Daeva. Was it Daeva who did it? It made sense. After all, she was magical. She could probably do all sorts of stuff. Any more thoughts in that direction were swiftly cut out by a sudden intense pain. Looking slightly shocked at Daeva, she pointed towards the fire that I didn't even know existed up until now. Oh god, the team was still fighting that thing which would become a walking bomb if those flames had any ideas. Mentally chastising myself to snap out of it, I began to think quickly. First of all, it's snowing. There's a lot of snow in the area that probably could be used to put out the flames. Wait a minute, it's an oil fire. I remember studying that oil fires had different properties, which meant that trying to use water would only make it worse. That meant that the snow couldn't be used. I could use my body, but what substance would be appropriate to transform into? I couldn't do steel, that conducts heat and I wasn't sure about rocks. What about the stuff frying pans were made of? I did do it once mostly because I was testing my powers. It could work, and it's not like I need to stay transformed for long. It probably would be less than my limit. Running towards the flames, I jumped into the air and thought hard about my transformation. Exerting my mental will, I tried to change my entire body into Teflon and then aimed to land on the fire, trying to extinguish the flames through the use of my body. Granted, that meant I had to get more oil all over me. I was going to need a good shower after this. jimmydalad> Coolio, going to roll to defend the team from possible explosion via throwing myself onto the fire <jimmydalad> !r 2d6 <Krysmbot> jimmydalad, 4 = 4 <jimmydalad> Well gently caress Marking potential
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Fre: 0 | Dan: -1 | Sav: +1 | Sup: +2 | Mun: +1 Potential: 0/5 | Conditions: None Flinching slightly as her premonitions came true, Voidblade quickly assumed damage control mode. Elementa had been captured abut then saved, which was good. The sparks however, still presented a fairly substantial hazard. Also, Elementa was there too. Well, you could not blame that girl for a lack of spirited effort at least, hah. Extending her hand, Voidblade attempted a small scale psionic boom to drive the air out of the areas where the sparks had lit oil aflame in an attempt to suffocate the fires. quote:Theantero: Rolling Defend to stop the fire Also, adding +1 Team to pool And true enough, without oxygen the sparks fluttered out almost instantly. With a dash, Eva took to the side of Elementa, still on the ground turned into... teflon? Yeah, definitely teflon. With a shrug, Voidblade offered a hand. "Hey boss! You holding up?" Theantero fucked around with this message at 22:01 on Aug 20, 2016 |
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Fre +1| Dan -1 | Sav +1 | Sup +2 | Mun +0 Potential: 1/5 | Conditions: Angry Om: He isn't alone, be very careful. "It is normally tradition to ask for permission before entering another's habitat" Azeral snaps, "Get out psychic!" Quill rolled her eyes, furious with Az's reaction to Om giving her vital information. It was a strange response from the angel in her head, almost territorial. I would have to deal with that later. Right, I need to find these people and fast! This oil monster needs to be taken down. God, I hope the rest of the team are ok... Quill saw the guttermage press the knife against his palm, and her eyes widened. She took the opportunity that Om had created by gaining his attention, to move behind the mage The extended feathers of her right wing sharpened into points and she raised them quickly to the Guttermage's neck, the elongated blade pressing into his skin, feeling his racing heart beat against the metal. Her left wing folded in front of her, and pushed into the man's back forcing him to stay still under her blade. "Drop the knife and tell us where the others are....or I will consume your soul." She whispered it softly, full of pent up rage, she didn't know she could lose her temper like this. She was so angry, and that was the kind of thing Az would say in an arrangement, not her. Rolling to provoke, +1 from Voidblade's assess the situation provoke the guttermage: 2d6+3 8 I can't believe this, here I am with a tramp who is trying to impress us with his little knife, and Daeva, and everybody else, are all out there, being heroes, saving the day. After making that snowstorm, I hope she knows she didn't make a mistake, she has got this, I wish I could tell her that, but I feel like i'd just mess it up, say the wrong thing. And here I am looking cool and being a badass, intimidating people, never though I could do that, bet Daeva would think it was cool and smile. I'd just melt at that smile.
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Om, you feel this overwhelming presence when you touch Quill's mind, something old and powerful, something inhuman. But at that same time there's a lightness, a softness to it's touch you've not felt in any other entity you've encountered. What do you think this is? How do you feel about it being so closely entangled with Quill's very essence? "AHHH!" The Guttermage screams! Dropping his knife! He's practically gone hysterical at Quill's threat. "MASTER! OH MASTER! I'm sorry! I swear I didn't tell them anything! Especially about Eli hiding on the street inside the news stand! PLEASE! DON'T EAT MY SOUL....! Wait... Master wasn't a girl...! YOU TRICKED ME!!!" He wriggles about in the feathery embrace, trying to actually reach for the knife, but it's out of his hands. Kicked away in his attempts to escape the teenager with wings. And the knife has landed at Om's feet! Ha! Suck it you weirdo homeless wannabe wizard! Well now, you've got the answer for where the next one's hiding! Good Job! And it sounds like you'll be able to head back out onto the street and catch up with the others! Plus maybe punk another one of these goons! Quill, oh hey! That actually worked! You've got to be feeling pretty cool right about now. You can feel something though when you touch him. Like... a thread? Some kind of connection snaking away into the sky? God only knows what it is.... actually maybe you should ask him? Or do you want to try and figure it out between yourselves, after all you've got a bunch of cool magic friends now... Maybe Daeva would know...? Oh yes, and one more thing. What are you going to do with this guy?
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Opal I feel my fist hit something. Holy jeebus! Missed the body, hit the leg. Cool! It shatters under my blow and that just puts a grin on my face. "Hey, get El out of there!" I call. "I don't want her to be borrowing my legs!" When Daeva extracts her, I run up, smiling at them both. "Thanks, Dee. You okay?" That last to Elementa, offering her a hand up. "Where did Om and Quill get off to?"
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