He digs a line in the dirt with his foot, standing behind it as the lights move to the opposite side, the red light already flickering. Scratching his head he whispers "Phantom Steed" before a black horse with a grey mane and tail appears, its hooves morphing into smoke at the ankles. Clicking his tongue to get its attention he hops onto it, ready as he'll ever be.
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"I want to add a few race rules, no teleportation or using of displacement as a means of locomotion , no skipping to another plane or time manipulation, worm wholes, and so on. For yourself and others, we all stay on this plane using just Flying, running swimming, tunnelling climbing only. It's no race if you just transmat to the Finnish line."
Toby moves to the start line, waiting.
"and from what the tour guide said the wards count a lot of stuff and actions as aggressive, lethal or not, some thing you may think is ok to do to others may end you up in detection, just think about that before you start doing thing to Toby not he and I linked, doing thing to him is like doing stuff to me ward wise."
Toby powers up fully bring his shield online, Halos voice takes on a serous tone over the PA system of Toby.
"strictly no 3ed party's, lots of other kids and staff around here, no harming or using others, if at any time any one gets hurt the race ends,"
Toby's head moves scanning the root it will take,
" last of all you only do stuff to yourself until the first turn, then after that it's game on, if your happy with that then so am I"
Sorry looked at your PC sheet, I noted your SR
SR don't stack for Gestalts, you take the higher SR: so SR49 (Half-Fiend SR + Eldritch Veil SR) needs to change I think they say to just the highest one.
Half-Fiend SR or Eldritch Veil SR
Sorry but I think that's how it works here.
Iolth nods, then turns to Shoshin "On your mark, roomie."
He then rises up into the air and shouts a few primal magic words, drawing from his Harrow deck as he does so.
[ooc]Accelerate and Dash, leaving me at 180 and a standard action, or 360 if I want to run at x4 speed. With all of his battlefield control incantations, you guys are all screwed. However, is it okay if I remove all damagin effects from them?
Toby ,moves to the every end of the line slowly, taking his time.
Reed steps to the line and waits.
Once there after about 2 mins Tobys legs springs down ready to start.
Halos voice comes out of Tobys PA.
"Once around the school and back here across the line here. Ready when you are guys... O and guys, Tony here weighs over three thousand pounds. Please don't get in the way when it's moving fast."
A low powerful whine comes form Toby has you hear his servos power up, ,this whine grows and the Mecha gets to full power.
A number of small devices move over it's shell, pointing at the others and scanning the topology of the land in front of them. Then flashing lights come warning to others of the Mecha's location.
As their all talking the red light vanishes, followed quickly by the yellow light, when the green begins to flicker he shouts "on your mark, get set" when it fades out he shouts "go!"
After that the horse takes off as fast as it can go.
As the lights change Toby and Halo keep still then the moment Shashin says "Go!"
As the light change a number of happen all at once with the Mehca. The mecha sound stops in an instant, along with the lights. As this happens there is a pixelated shimmer of light and the Mecha disappears from sight.
As the actively camouflage comes up the large Mecha dos massive flip backwoods. Releasing the power in its legs. How ever it moves not the way Shoshin went but the opposite way. The Mecha leaps some 100 feet up and back, it rolls in the air to face the other way landing it sets off at high speed dash.
Tuffs of dirt fly up some way away behind the group, it seems Halo and Toby are going the other way around the school, From this you can just make out where they my be going.
Reed begins to run and after realizing he cannot win he casts two spells. With the first the sky grows black and the winds pick up, the second causes the ground to become soft and clinging.
Shoshin looks up as the sky darkens, cursing softly he brings the horse to ground as the wind almost causes him to crash and sends it galloping over the mud that the earth below has become with no apparent difficulty, intent on at least finishing their race.
Iolth curses as the wind buffets his wings, and starts struggling to maintain his flight.
Managing to hang on, Iolth begins to hover and roars an invocation over the howling winds, his coat being whipped around in the wind.
With a great rumbling and roar, eldritch black tentacles burst forth from the ground and begin to grapple Shoshin... and then another pair erupts and starts throwing themselves at Reed.
A silver masked man arrives abruptly in the middle of the battleground of spells... The wind not touching his black cloak....
"My my my....." he says gravely
"What the-!" as the tentacle tries to catch him, he swerves the horse away before glaring at Iolth before turning to face him as the horse continues running and growling out "You really wanna do this? I won't hold back if you do!"
Reed aims a rod at the tentacles attempting to snag him and activates it before increasing the winds and making them blow back toward the starting line.
Shoshin and his mount fight against the wind, gritting his teeth in frustration as the wind threatens to blow him off the horse and back to the starting line.
Stopping I think you can do this, but just a note. Change weather takes 10 minutes to cast the spell and an additional 10 minutes for the effects to manifest, so I would add in something that speeds the casting up, or the race may be over before the spell kicks in :)
As she powered the other way around the School, Toby was supplying data on their path. She had worked out the root around the school was some 3.8 miles long, not taking into account unseen obstacles. With the tour she had scanned a map of the grounds now that was her overlay. Placing dots on it where she, toby and the others where estimated to be. Going the other way around the school, she had split the targets. Behind the imagers showed something was going on. Clouds forming overhead, and black dark things thrashing about. She had made two terns so it was hard to see now. To much foliage and ground stuff in the way. What ever it was it did not look fun. But she was having a hard time. You just can't run a nearly two ton Mecha around a school. Other students, ground staff getting in the way. more than once she had to flow them down or just jump over others. On girl on a broom stick almost hit them mid jump, until Halo Dropped Stealth and put on the lights and sirens She kept them on, so going was better and others now could see her coming. But still she had to be careful. All the wile overhead the winds where picking up. Checking her root she estimated it would take them at this speed, close to
so just over five Minutes to get around the school, and she was 30 seconds in.
Toby ::"PROXIMITY ALERT!!::
Halo
She acted to move them,
From behind
"HAY!! LOOK WHERE YOUR GOING YOU DUMB CONSTRUCT!!
darn I only just missed that teacher or who ever it was.
"Sorry!!"
She called back, all ready speeding away, lights blazing.
As Shoshin fights the wind he looks towards his steed and shouts "Alright, enough games" before the horse takes off around the school using the tornado as a slingshot, a loud crack of sound following as the mount completely ignores the wind.
"F^~* this," Iolth growls, and he begins to siphon magical energy from Shoshin's horse and Reed's storm.
Iolth seems to grow a little bigger, and his body is wrapped in whipping tendrils of green flame. Slowly, a second pair of wings begins to emerge...
All Champions can sense a faint aura of Destruction a bit off from where Sorchan led his class. It's getting stronger by the second.
You feel a great disturbance in the Force... No, seriously, something is very wrong with Iolth. Images of catatstrophic natural events flash across your mind as you like at Iolth: volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis. It seems that there is nearly infinite destructive power exuding from Iolth...
The path had opened up and now she was moving past a large lake.
::Target change::
On one of the imager zoom feeds she could see Iolth change shape,
What the ... No idea Toby, just keep us to the left of the lake, then take the turn up past the green house. We will go over with a jump then open it up once we get to the playing fields round the back. We will pass the others there, so lets go Stealth.::
They speed on around the school, but Halo is keeping note of whats going off in the air behind her.
Shoshin feels his horse begin to flicker as if some force is disrupting it. Stopping, and getting down from the saddle he looks over at the source and sees a massive Iolth like from the memory.
"Well, either we're screwed or we get serious" staring directly up at Iolth, mentally cursing because he might have to do something he'd regret, clenching and un-clenching his hand as he steels himself for whatever comes "Either way, I'm not letting a friend down again"
Before Iolth completes his transformation, you get a resounding telepathic warning
With a massive roar, Iolth rears up to his full size, and a world-shaking burst of pure destructive energy explodes from him, scorching the countryside...
Hearing the telepathic warning, he braces himself, muttering a quick "Protection from Energy (fire)". When he sees a virtual wall of destruction coming towards him he closes his eyes before it hits to brace for pain and jumps behind his steed.
By virtue of his amazing reflexes and more than a bit of luck, Shoshin escapes most of the blast.
APOCALYPSE ROARS and magic energy begins to descend from the sky.
This isn't enough to even destabilize the wards, however.
APOCALYPSE RUMBLES
The robe of the Wearer doesn't even get scorched by the event.
Now.... That.... is a temper tantrum. he comments, and then proceeds to flick smoke bombs at Iolth's head, attempting to attract its attention....
His silvery mask begins to take on Iolth's face if Iolth turns to look at the black clad figure
Halo now worried about hitting others slows toby down to a trot, taking her time to be careful wile passing the school on the far side.
Halo waited at the starting line. Toby had is Mecha warning light on so others could see the Mecha coming. Something that big would have to go slow. She would have to take it slow in parts so that she it no one.
working out a root she could see it was around 3.8 miles around.
Then she scanned the others. Iolth looked like he had totally zoned out. He was just looking off into the sky, eyes wide. was he sweating, what was up with him. He looked like had seen a ghost or scary alternative reality where things had gone bad in some way. Well lucky they where in this one ready to start the race. best get him out of it.
"Hay!!! Iolth you racing or not??
Came her voice from Toby's PA system.
Shoshin moves the phantom steed over to Iolth, waving a hand in front of his face "Helllo, Agartha to Iolth, you there buddy?"
Turning to Halo and Reed he shrugs before taking his place at the line again.
" Err Shell we just start with out him, he seems to be lost in his own little world there."
Says Halo v Toby.
"So rules, to make clear, we race around the school. Its just under four miles if we keep just inside the ward boundary. Now no messing with each other, we just race, no harming others and we need to be mind full of others, going round if need be so as not to hit any one. How dos that sound. We go when the last light go's. I'm going to keep my lights and sirens on so others can see us coming. Toby here is over 3000 pounds so really do not want him to hit any one."
"I guess, I mean we can't exactly wake him up forcefully can we?"
"Splash of water may work, but if my sirens did not wake him, well..."
Growling in frustration Shoshin points up to the dimming lights "Let's just start, we'll be back here after the race so it's no big deal. If a siren couldn't wake him I doubt anything could"
Seals the rift, then says to Morrivan
"I'm sorry this didn't go the way you hoped, but I sincerely hope it brought you some closure. We all react to death in different ways, there is no right or one correct way to handle it. I really hope this helps."
She nodded having trouble talking through the tears that wouldn't stop flowing. "Th-thanks," she managed before completely breaking down. Raelle hugged her while she cried, overcome with tears herself.
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"Hello. My name is Mrs. del Sol. I'm one of the teachers here. I haven't seen either of you here before...are you new students?" she asked in a gentle, pleasant tone.
Kim seems a bit nervous around adults she doesn't know. she holds her teddy up a little higher like a stuffed shield.
Kim simply nods affirmative, but then shakes her head "No"
Apparently she is new but not yet a student.
"So...you're here to register as new students? Well, normally you would see the Headmistress for that, but she's taken a group out on a field trip today, so I'm filling in for her while she's gone."
"I agree Shoshin, He'll still be here, So im ready, just say when"
Waits for the lights to change and Shoshin to say go.
Toby is powers up.
He nods, looking toward the glowing lights behind the line as they flicker out one by one "Alright. Ready, get set...go!" after the final light disappears he takes off on the steed he summoned.
Mel was leaving when the mention of the excuse slip for being late. mel turned and gave Phaez a thumbs up indicating thanks.
suddenly Mel remembered something, Professor Aananda? I was wondering if I could use your lab tonight? I am working on an experiment and I am not sure if the Sim room will be able to help.
Aananda looked confused. "I thought you dropped out of advanced mechanics due to lack of interest. I haven't reassigned your workstation yet...of course after I had to rebuild everything after the attack there really isn't anything there but the basics anyways."
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"Can either one of you trace teleports?"
Jeran shifted back to humanoid and spat as much ichor out of his mouth as he could manage.
"Don't know much about magic. Do either of you know how to close those portals?" he asked before spitting again. "Gah. I don't suppose anyone has any mouthwash?"
"Can either one of you trace teleports?"Jeran shifted back to humanoid and spat as much ichor out of his mouth as he could manage.
"Don't know much about magic. Do either of you know how to close those portals?" he asked before spitting again. "Gah. I don't suppose anyone has any mouthwash?"
Pulls out a flask, and offers it to Jeran.
"We're not on school grounds, so this might actually burn a bit going down, but it'll get the taste out of your mouth. Or rinse n spit. No worries.""I thought killin' the casters or otherwise disrupting them would stop the portals. But they're to the Abyss, I recognize the smell."
"Can either one of you trace teleports?"Jeran shifted back to humanoid and spat as much ichor out of his mouth as he could manage.
"Don't know much about magic. Do either of you know how to close those portals?" he asked before spitting again. "Gah. I don't suppose anyone has any mouthwash?"
Pulls out a flask, and offers it to Jeran.
"We're not on school grounds, so this might actually burn a bit going down, but it'll get the taste out of your mouth. Or rinse n spit. No worries.""I thought killin' the casters or otherwise disrupting them would stop the portals. But they're to the Abyss, I recognize the smell."
Jeran gratefully took the flask, took a large swig and chose the rinse and spit option before handing it back. "Thanks, man. Blood tastes bad enough, but that guy's blood was messed up."
"Open portals to the Abyss can't be good. I wonder if we managed to catch some cultists and threatened them they could maybe tell us how to close these things?"
Reed begins to run after them.
Toby powers away after Shoshin speeding up as she pilots him, hitting 400' feet a round, she pulls topy up with Shoshin. He and his mount with Halo and Toby neck and neck as hey head off round he school.
Roll 1d6
1: Clear path this time.
2: Plants/trees/bushes
3: grounds/Pond/statue etc Features Gardens
4: Small out Building
5: Student or Students
6: grounds Staff/teacher!!
As she speed on a student reading a book walks out of a hut she was passing, blocking her root.
"O SHUGGERRRRR!!
She pulls Toby up to a dead stop, leaving deep dirt ruts in the ground, then wait wile the student walks on out of her way. Not even looking up from his book.
"what the..."
but then she starts to power Toby back up again, Shoshin was now ahead and Reed was just passing her.
"Having a bit of trouble Halo?" he smirks, glancing at Toby as his steed flies through the air above.
"laugh it up Fox boy"
She says now having to catch both of them.
As he shifts his gaze in front of him, he notices his steed is on a collision course with one of the statues on the grounds.
He pulls back on the reins of the steed, stopping just inches from the statue.
Halo seeing him pull up starts after him, as she gets close she calls to him
"Having trouble yourself there Foxy"
"I don't know the grounds well enough yet Halo" he moves the steed back a little.
Serrin's eyes light up at the mention of such an amazingly massive library. "C-C-Can I g-go there now?" She says, her excitement overwhelming her ability to talk.
vis smiles at the library. This defiantly is amazing. So much to see here.