Arcane Pool: 11/13
Seeing that he will have a hard time hitting the beast he places his sword before his face before unleashing an assault on the beast.
Accurate Strike (Ex): The magus can expend 2 points from his arcane pool as a swift action to resolve all of his melee weapon attacks until the end of his turn as melee touch attacks. The magus must be at least 9th level before selecting this arcana.
Krays grabs Ephebe and ports her to the infirmary, and then goes back and plays ambulance, as his magic cannot affect this thing...
::Which would you like me to attend to, headmaster?::
Runs down to the basement and sees the carnage...and most everyone's ineffective attacks...
"Oh my..."
Jim takes another device out of his utility belt, slapping it on his wrist.
Jim simply tries to touch it, now.
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Fei races around desperately trying to get injured students out of harm's way so they can be teleported to safer locations. The metal dragon's lashings take out the First Aid Station, shattering most of the larger bits of gear there.
As he passes by its wreckage, he notices a sparking off to the side. One of the healing staves that had been brought had a large crack along its center - and that crack was spreading.
Fei quickly grabs the staff as he runs by, wrapping his hands around the crack and concentrating for a moment. The staff stops sparking, and gives a resounding *CRACK* as it finally shatters...but it does not detonate. Fei's eyes glow with a silver-white light for a second, then fade back to their normal color. The young monk drops the drained item and heads toward the metal dragon. He sees the magic of the other students sliding off of it, and decides to hold onto his magical energies for other uses.
Taking a few seconds to position himself effectively, he launches a physical assault on the beast. As he begins, his trepidation and fear seem to abate, replaced by an almost supernal calm...
Filne stopped dead in his tracks at the beast.
"Well at least its never dull work."
The frog in his cage was shaking the bars trying to get out and away.
"Oh come now I am not going to let you get hurt. Relax dont go hopping mad."
The frog stops and turns to the elf giving him an expression that conveyed deep loathing.
"What I could not resist. Anyways lets get started."
He drops the cage which winks out of existance and a large armored figure appears in it's place.
"Would you mind clearing out the students while I try to deal with that, thank you."
The winged figure starts taking groups of students to safety while he starts casting a mighty spell.
Jim opens the hatch on his chest, retrieving his tools.
Jim will try to open a flap, or something, anything while it's distracted.
Filne finally completes his spell. At first nothing seems to happen. Then the gear wyrm finds itself being hammered by an unnatural wind.
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Keme shoves through the crowd to get to Kitty and Michael.
"Come on, this way," he shouts at them, grabbing onto both of them and using dimension door to get the three of them out into the hallway.
Ephebe blinked and bit back a groan. She was still conscious, but she was pretty sure that there was severe damage to a couple of internal organs and definitely some broken bones. She waved the healer away as she pulled out her Caster and shot herself with a Heal. She took a second to breathe as the pain faded away. And then she got to work. She could do a lot more good right now helping to heal people than she could do by getting herself squished again.
Jim gives up on his endeavor to harm this thing, slaps yet another device on in an attempt to at least not be eaten by this thing , and starts gathering students as best he can, to bring them to safety.
He jumped underneath the claws of the creature again, just barely avoiding getting squished. He was scooping up unconscious students as fast as he could, but too many of them were already beyond help. He scooped up another one that might still be among the living and ran towards the exit.
Gaelvin had avoided whatever in the nine hells that thing was. But as it seemed to be sticking around and trying to kill everyone he choose not to run as far as he could from it, at least not just yet. He started to play a number of songs at once letting them wash over friend and foe alike granting a number of effects.
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Nasima gives up being a cloud and re-solidifies on the ground. I suppose this thing's got scanners or infrared or whatever and can just see through any obstacle. She leaves her clothes where they fell when she went incorporeal -- no time to pick them back up -- and just leaves a thin and strategically opaque sheet of cloud covering her body in a form-fitting "suit" as she helps with the rescue efforts, always careful to leave herself out of the line of fire. Or stomp.
Even if I could summon Khoda more than once a day, I'm not sure I'd want to; I think the two of them fighting would do more harm than good, and anyway I just don't have the horsepower to keep him on a leash now. She shakes her head in dismay as she pulls what she assumes is a body out of the cafeteria, her eyes filling with tears. Thunderheads! This was just a kid! What kind of...who does this to kids? I gotta get better. I coulda stopped this. If I was good enough, I could call Him and stop this...
Weeping silently, her mouth a hyphen of determination, the sylph pulls corpse after corpse out of the ruined concert hall.
::Which would you like me to attend to, headmaster?::
::Normally I'd say the dragon, but I might end up needing someone to hold me back... go toward the dragon.::
With a flick of his wrist a card slid from inside his sleeve to the ground in front of the mod, creating a huge earthen wall around the school.
"Explain yourselves before I remove you from school grounds forcefully!" He shouts at the crowd. "The next person to throw a rock will regret it!"
Keme shoves through the crowd to get to Kitty and Michael.
"Come on, this way," he shouts at them, grabbing onto both of them and using dimension door to get the three of them out into the hallway.
"What was that thing!?"
Up in Ryo's office, Lysander has made the mistake of trying to find out what was happening while his little cousins were watching. The few seconds of live feed into the basement had caused them to start crying, and he couldn't get them to calm down no matter how hard he tried.
"What was that thing!?"Keme shoves through the crowd to get to Kitty and Michael.
"Come on, this way," he shouts at them, grabbing onto both of them and using dimension door to get the three of them out into the hallway.
"I have no idea!"
She spots Professor Vakkler and a blonde girl lying on the floor unconscious, in serious danger of being trampled by people running away.
"Oh, no, we have to help them," she said, running forward.
The gear wyrm was not affected by Jim's rusting grasp at all, and he just didn't seem to be able to connect. Fei's punches were definitely connecting, but didn't seem to have enough power behind them to do any real damage. . But Enre actually put a few small dents in it. It turned its full attention towards him, very pissed off.
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Shaking the tingling out of his hands, Fei sees the beast go after another student. Taking advantage of the creature's diverted attention, he leaps onto its back and proceeds to race up towards the thing's head...
As Kitty approaches Vai, she notices the wings on her back are similar to the ones granted by the dragonsong, but don't appear to be illusory.
Aananda arrived in the basement, and quickly made her presence known by causing the rock under the gear worm's feet and tail to become soft and then rapidly re-solidify, temporarily trapping it.
"I'll keep it busy," she shouted. "Get the wounded out of here!"
"And the dead too if you can manage, or there won't be enough left of them to try to bring them back."
Enre roars after being hit by the metal dragon. His sword than seems to glow with fire and lightning as he roars out
As Kitty approaches Vai, she notices the wings on her back are similar to the ones granted by the dragonsong, but don't appear to be illusory.
"Huh, that's weird. Well, no time to worry about it now," she said as she tried to lift the other girl while being constantly jostled by fleeing students.
Fei swings wide as he reaches the dragon's head, trying to strike at one of its eyes without falling off (^.^)
The girl wasn't hurt, that much Michael could see, and he picked up Vakkler while helping Kitty get Vai up.
Then Michael realizes something. Something very bad.
"Where's Saffire?"
Jim, hearing Aananda's orders, starts scooping up the remains of as many of the injured/dead students as possible, flying between the dragon's legs to get to the bodies.
Slarrow stops croaking when he sees he's been noticed. He hops up onto Michael's shoulder. He doesn't understand what they're saying, or what's going on, but the tiny slurk is angry.
*Ribbit*
The girl wasn't hurt, that much Michael could see, and he picked up Vakkler while helping Kitty get Vai up.
Then Michael realizes something. Something very bad.
"Where's Saffire?"
Kitty paled. "What?! But...he was on my shoulder when we started running.....oh, no! He must have slipped off when Keme grabbed our shoulders to pull us out to the hallway! He's too little. He'll get trampled in this!"
There are shouts of surprise as the wall comes up.
"He's a Cardcaster!"
"I told you!"
"We're here to kill the dragons!"
"We're here to shut you down!"
"Maybe we should go!"
"Kill him!"
"When will you fools get with the times!? The dragons of legend have been extinct for thousands of years and it's a well known fact that I'm a Cardcaster, since I've been trying to get rid of all the ignorance-born rumors about us!" Ryo shouts, his eyes swirling with gray. "Now, since I've been threatened twice... GET OFF MY LAWN!"
The ground under the mob shudders and cracks as it suddenly becomes a very steep hill that slopes away from the school.
Fei manages to scratch the gear worm's eye, but the creature barely notices as it is currently busy trying to break free of the floor.Fei swings wide as he reaches the dragon's head, trying to strike at one of its eyes without falling off (^.^)
Fei manages to scratch the gear worm's eye, but the creature barely notices as it is currently busy trying to break free of the floor.Fei swings wide as he reaches the dragon's head, trying to strike at one of its eyes without falling off (^.^)
Kitty paled. "What?! But...he was on my shoulder when we started running.....oh, no! He must have slipped off when Keme grabbed our shoulders to pull us out to the hallway! He's too little. He'll get trampled in this!"
Michael tosses SLarrow to Kitty and pushes Vakkler into the hall on what looks like a wave of stone.
"Kitty, get out of here. I'll find Saffire and get out of here as fast as I can. I love you." He kisses her once before running off into the surging crowd in search of their little drake.
"Michael, wait..!" She was stopped from following by Keme grabbing her and shoving her in the other direction, towards safety.
"You heard him, Kitty. The sooner I get you and these guys out of danger the sooner I can go back and help your boyfriend, so get a move on and let's get out of here!"
He sighed inwardly. Of all the lame assignments Hope had given him, protecting this airhead was definitely near the top of the list of most annoying.
Filne had studied the beast and what his own summon had been able to do to it. Magic seemed to be a limited weapon at best. High physical abilities, both offense and defense. It seemed brute force would be the best option but nothing less then a titan would even wound the thing. Running thru the list of spells he had, bearly a handful would be of any use on the thing. Their were only three spells that had a chance. One was reasonable enough the other two gave him pause.
"You know I really am starting not to like you."
He started casting another mighty spell. The air hammering down once more on the beast. He hoped things would be resolved before his spell was completed.
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::Defensive maneuvers, Fei,:: she said telepathically right before she started pelting the creature with rocks...mostly small rocks, no bigger than a foot across. There were still noncombatants working to get people out of the blast area so she couldn't risk using anything truly large yet. She made no effort at all to keep the flurry of stones from hitting Fei.