The Avalon Chronicles

Game Master lynora

"About what, exactly? The statues? My mystery associate there? Why I'm doing all of this?"

"I'm pretty sure I know why. I'm just not entirely sure what. But when you start tossing around stuff about destroying the world...it makes a girl curious. Okay, more than curious."

In looking around the cafeteria, Krays notices that a rather large percentage of the students left eating dinner are lycans, and they're not actually eating.

I'll just post these every once in a while, take them timewise as you wish.

"Yes, well apparently we had thought there would be revenge attacks on you for the scuffle in the cafeteria the other morning."
He looks around...
"..or they were just waiting for you here...I would get ready for combat, were I you two..."
Krays' scales begin to harden, and his robes change as he calls forth some greater shadows...
2d4 + 3 ⇒ (1, 4) + 3 = 8 greater shadows answer the call.

"I'm not that forgettable, am I?" Gustav joked with Vai. Hearing Krays, he said "You were the warning? But everything's fine here." Gustav pointed out all the students in the cafeteria. The boy then dug into his steak, pouring steak sauce on it first.

Vai tries to be casual with Gustav, but the words come out strained: "Not all all, I've just had a long day."

Vai listens to Krays. "Wait... combat? Here? I..." Vai stands up and will move to stand behind Gustav if he stands. "I don't know if I can do anything right now Krays. It's too public." Not to mention her exhaustion.

"Oh, I've already armored up." Gustav said inbetween bites. He looked around. "The problem is, most of my powers ah, aren't discretionary. That's why I make a lot of walls and domes. Worst-case, I would Psychoport outside and fly around, cutting loose on anything that moved." Gustav took a sip of his drink. "It can't be worse than a pack of winter wolves or a squad of orcs looking for fight." He looked questioningly at Vai as she got up to move around him.

Gustav hears a cold chuckle.

"Can't it, little man? I do wonder about that," the white-haired beauty smiles.

"I think you're about to find out."

The lycans stand and anyone not a lycan starts running for the door, trying to get out of the way of a nasty fight.

Khassar activates the shadow property on his armor. While hanging from the wall, he then mixes and consumes a twin form extract. With both of him stuck to the wall Khassar carefully unfolds his portable hole, without deploying it to a surface, and hands one end to his duplicate. Moving stealthfully across the ceiling and down the wall (15 ft/rd Half speed) both Khassars attempt to carefullly place the hole behind the armored figure.

Stealth:1d20 + 36 ⇒ (13) + 36 = 49
Stealth:1d20 + 36 ⇒ (6) + 36 = 42
Stealth:1d20 + 36 ⇒ (19) + 36 = 55
Stealth:1d20 + 36 ⇒ (3) + 36 = 39
Stealth:1d20 + 36 ⇒ (10) + 36 = 46
Stealth:1d20 + 36 ⇒ (15) + 36 = 51
Stealth:1d20 + 36 ⇒ (17) + 36 = 53
Stealth:1d20 + 36 ⇒ (9) + 36 = 45
Stealth:1d20 + 36 ⇒ (15) + 36 = 51
Stealth:1d20 + 36 ⇒ (1) + 36 = 37
Stealth:1d20 + 36 ⇒ (14) + 36 = 50
Stealth:1d20 + 36 ⇒ (17) + 36 = 53
Stealth:1d20 + 36 ⇒ (16) + 36 = 52
Stealth:1d20 + 36 ⇒ (16) + 36 = 52
Stealth:1d20 + 36 ⇒ (4) + 36 = 40

Spider climb 10min/lvl. Twin form = 1rd/lvl = 16 - 1 for unfolding the portable hole. No more than 2 minutes.

Shakes his head sadly
"If murder is your intent, I will not allow it. Take a moment and understand there are better causes to die for than revenge..." upon mental command, the shadows being wailing in humger and anticipation "...and worse things that can be visited upon you than mere death."

Intimidate: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (14) + 15 = 29

Gustav hears a cold chuckle.

"Can't it, little man? I do wonder about that," the white-haired beauty smiles.

"I think you're about to find out."

The lycans stand and anyone not a lycan starts running for the door, trying to get out of the way of a nasty fight.

Gustav turned around in his seat, looking around blonde-haired Vai. "You again. I was told not to kill anyone, that all types are allowed here. So anything you do is as fleeting as a rainstorm." Gustav glanced left and right at the weres starting to stand. "Just out of curiosity: how much silver dust can you inhale?" the black-haired human asked nonchalantly. And furrowed his brows as he concentrated.

Prepare for teleportation said Gustav's voice in both Vai's and Krays' minds from the psicrystal around the boy as he talked to the white-haired girl.

Future actions:
- Wall of Ectoplasm around Gustav, Vai, and Krays
- Turn said Wall to pure silver (with instability to explode)
- Psychoport with Vai and Krays to the cafeteria entrance on the other side in the hallway
- Wait for the fireworks inside the cafeteria to subside

Prose to follow...

Feeling the strange pulse, Phaezeriel looks up from the book of spells he is studying. After a few moments of nothing else happening, he will return to his studying. (unless of course, something interrupts him)

P.S. He is always under the effect of a Personal Barred Mind and The Chainstaff's Psychoport Trigger is set to take him to his room upon being attacked.

EDIT: P.P.S. If any of the flurry of telepathy is within 30 feet of him, he knows who is using telepathy; this may change the stated actions.

Asch just happens to be walking past the cafeteria when the lycans show up in force. :Hmmm....looks interesting: He steps into the shadows and reappears in an empty corner of the cafeteria shrouded in shadows waiting to see what happens.

Stealth:1d20 + 44 ⇒ (19) + 44 = 63

To be clear, Vai was trying to use Gustav as a shield of sorts. Krays is too small to hide behind.

There's nothing I can DO here. I have to stop this somehow. I can't transform in the middle of the cafeteria though... Vai thought, frustrated. She had only finished half her meal, and her belly grumbled at the interruption. He's pretty brave. Vai thought of Gustav nonchalantly dismissing the lycanthropes massing around them. "Krays... what do I do? I... I can't fight like this!" she says quietly but urgently.

Ssrena laughed. Her eyes were dilated almost to black. Looking around you can see that the same is true of the other lycans.

"There are ways around that silver allergy, you know. And they have some other interesting side effects as well. You won't find us so easily deterred."

A giant dire frog jumps forward right in front of the shadows Krays summoned and releases a burst of positive energy.

8d6 ⇒ (5, 1, 4, 6, 4, 3, 3, 2) = 28

See, even with the Shadow property, you can't use Stealth while being observed unless you have Hide in Plain Sight.

The armored figure shifts warily, but doesn't move

"I'm pretty sure I know why. I'm just not entirely sure what. But when you start tossing around stuff about destroying the world...it makes a girl curious. Okay, more than curious."

"I would love to hear why you think I'm doing this." Alton says warmly. "But lets start with the statues. You see, they let us know when someone is using their abilities. Once we know who, we can figure out why and if it's a possible threat to our plan. A simple warning system that works quite well."

"You told me outright, Alton. At the concert. You think of Agartha as a prison. I wonder if you know the difference between a prison and a safe haven? You're a Champion. No one's keeping you here. You can get out anytime you want. What interests me is what makes you think you're so eminently qualified to be making decisions for everyone else without so much as a by-your-leave. I can think of a few people like that, and I'm descended from one of them. They rule the most oppressive regime you've ever seen. All for the good of the 'lesser races' of course. Because they can't be trusted to make decisions for themselves."

Ssrena laughed. Her eyes were dilated almost to black. Looking around you can see that the same is true of the other lycans.

"There are ways around that silver allergy, you know. And they have some other interesting side effects as well. You won't find us so easily deterred."

A giant dire frog jumps forward right in front of the shadows Krays summoned and releases a burst of positive energy.

8d6

Gustav made the purely mental action of manifesting. His mind ran at breakneck speed as he concentrated. Silver-pink blobs appeared inbetween himself, Vai, Krays, and the rest of the room as the demon-frog flashed them with light. The blobs grew and expanded into a misshapen dome around the three people and the cafeteria table (Wall of Ectoplasm, 2 inches thick, 20 hp per 5-foot square, hardness 5, STR check DC 19 to break through). Without speaking, Gustav stood up from the table and reached with one hand, splaying his fingers on the inner surface of the wall (Ectoplasmic Creation, Major, faster than 10 min manifesting time to induce instability). Do not worry. Gustav is about to teleport you outside this room. Gustav's voice said in Vai's and Krays' minds as he reached back to touch them, still staring at the wall as the pinkish material became solid silver instead of transparent ectoplasm. The three disappeared as multiple blows rained upon the dome.

Jiminy flinched. He could feel the anger from Ephebe like standing to close to a fire. He'd never seen her this angry before.

"Phebes," he said hesitantly. "If they're trying to destroy Agartha, what makes you think that they're not trying to just destroy everyone on it? I can't follow this. "

Multiple blows from who? They may be high as kites, but this isn't the other combat. These are the leaders, Jeran's inner circle as it were. Rintol and Borin may not be that smart, but that's why they have Ssrena to do their thinking for them. :P

"Not surprising that the coward decided to run. Albin, sniff him out. He won't have run far," Ssrena commanded.

Albin sniffed the air carefully searching for Gustav's scent.

Khassar defensivly casts prediction of failure at the armored figure.

Concentration: 1d20 + 21 ⇒ (9) + 21 = 30

Will DC 25

DESCRIPTION

You wrack the target’s body and mind with the anguish and suffering of every bitter failure it will ever experience, rendering it permanently shaken and sickened. A successful Will save reduces the duration to 1 round per level. If the target is a spellcaster, failing this saving throw means it also gains a random minor spellblight.

16 rounds.

Just a quick repost to get this part wrapped up so we can move on to the main event downstairs, since I think it got missed. :)

narrator wrote:

The jackal squirmed and clawed, trying and failing to get free of Fei's grasp.

Fei flows around the Jackal's mad attacks like water, then solidifies his hold and grapples his opponent by the neck. He immediately brings the full pressure his strength allows to bear, shutting off his windpipe and trying to cause him to black out.

Pin damage (nonlethal): 1d10+11

Fort DC28 for the Jackal to remain conscious.

Will Save:1d20 + 17 ⇒ (19) + 17 = 36+3 if it's a Fear effect.

Shaking off the spell, Mystery leaps at Khasser and lashes out with a powerful -yet graceful- kick.
Kick:1d20 + 34 ⇒ (9) + 34 = 43
Damage:1d6 + 5 + 12 + 5 ⇒ (3) + 5 + 12 + 5 = 25
Psychokinetic Damage:1d4 ⇒ 1
Sonic Damage:1d4 ⇒ 2

"Oh my, it looks like this discussion is going to be interrupted." Alton says as the Raven and Curved Blade statues start glowing brighter. "That's a shame, now we'll be so distracted."

"You were talking about the Dragon Empire though, right? What if I told you I have twenty-three red dragons here in Agartha waiting to come to my aid?"

The shadows recoil, but aren't as hurt as they should be. They all turn on the frog...

Shadow 1 to hit 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (10) + 6 = 16 touch attack
Damage = 1d8 ⇒ 7 STR damage and 1d6 ⇒ 6 cold damage
Shadow 2 to hit 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (2) + 6 = 8 touch attack
Damage = 1d8 ⇒ 3 STR damage and 1d6 ⇒ 1 cold damage
Shadow 3 to hit 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (7) + 6 = 13 touch attack
Damage = 1d8 ⇒ 8 STR damage and 1d6 ⇒ 2 cold damage
Shadow 4 to hit 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (2) + 6 = 8 touch attack
Damage = 1d8 ⇒ 2 STR damage and 1d6 ⇒ 1 cold damage
Shadow 5 to hit 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (7) + 6 = 13 touch attack
Damage = 1d8 ⇒ 8 STR damage and 1d6 ⇒ 5 cold damage
Shadow 6 to hit 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (15) + 6 = 21 touch attack
Damage = 1d8 ⇒ 4 STR damage and 1d6 ⇒ 6 cold damage
Shadow 7 to hit 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (12) + 6 = 18 touch attack
Damage = 1d8 ⇒ 5 STR damage and 1d6 ⇒ 2 cold damage
Shadow 8 to hit 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 = 12 touch attack
Damage = 1d8 ⇒ 7 STR damage and 1d6 ⇒ 6 cold damage

Krays restores his minions with a burst of negative energy, but the energy goes around Vai and Gustav without harm...
Channel Negative Energy: 8d6 + 8 ⇒ (6, 4, 2, 2, 4, 1, 4, 4) + 8 = 35 to a 30' radius

Gustav, Krays, and Vai reappeared just outside the cafeteria. Gustav peered through the door. "They're not attacking the dome like before. That's strange. Still. Wait for it..." The ectoplasm-turned-silver was turning black in places. Bubbles appeared on the surface. Several lycans appeared to be sniffing the air, and three turned their eyes in the direction of the hiding students. "Uh-oh." Gustav muttered. One the weres growled, staring hard at the slightly-open door.

Gustav turned around, grabbing Vai and Krays by their arms. "New plan. RUN FOR IT!" Gustav shouted as the cafeteria was wracked by the explosion of the newly-created dome.

As Ryuzo and Nala are walking back from classes he suddenly goes rigid, as he sniffs the air.
"Nala, the lycans are mobilizing...gathering...their stench is growing.
Do you want to fight or run?"

"Oh my, it looks like this discussion is going to be interrupted." Alton says as the Raven and Curved Blade statues start glowing brighter. "That's a shame, now we'll be so distracted."

"You were talking about the Dragon Empire though, right? What if I told you I have twenty-three red dragons here in Agartha waiting to come to my aid?"

"...Well, then I guess the first most logical thing to do would be to call my dad."

"The second most logical thing is almost certainly a Bad Idea."

"But I'll go there if I have to."

Only two of the shadows' attacks actually hit and Gill quickly restores himself while Ssrena places a wall of force around the dome, mostly containing the explosion and minimizing damage.

"This way!" Albin shouted, running after Gustav.

Just a quick repost to get this part wrapped up so we can move on to the main event downstairs, since I think it got missed. :)

Fei, of the Sun Soul wrote:

narrator wrote:

The jackal squirmed and clawed, trying and failing to get free of Fei's grasp.

Fei flows around the Jackal's mad attacks like water, then solidifies his hold and grapples his opponent by the neck. He immediately brings the full pressure his strength allows to bear, shutting off his windpipe and trying to cause him to black out.

Pin damage (nonlethal): 1d10+11

Fort DC28 for the Jackal to remain conscious.

Fort save: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (16) + 9 = 25

As Ryuzo and Nala are walking back from classes he suddenly goes rigid, as he sniffs the air.

"Nala, the lycans are mobilizing...gathering...their stench is growing.
Do you want to fight or run?"

Nala paled. "Jeran must have lost control of the pack. This is partly my fault. I...I made the mess so I should help clean it up, right? ...But all I have is enchantment. I'll get in trouble for using that....but if I don't...I don't know what I should do," she says, distressed.

The shadows attack him again, as this was their last command...
Shadow 1 to hit 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (4) + 6 = 10 touch attack
Damage = 1d8 ⇒ 7 STR damage and 1d6 ⇒ 3 cold damage
Shadow 2 to hit 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (7) + 6 = 13 touch attack
Damage = 1d8 ⇒ 2 STR damage and 1d6 ⇒ 6 cold damage
Shadow 3 to hit 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (8) + 6 = 14 touch attack
Damage = 1d8 ⇒ 7 STR damage and 1d6 ⇒ 5 cold damage
Shadow 4 to hit 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (11) + 6 = 17 touch attack
Damage = 1d8 ⇒ 6 STR damage and 1d6 ⇒ 2 cold damage
Shadow 5 to hit 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (13) + 6 = 19 touch attack
Damage = 1d8 ⇒ 1 STR damage and 1d6 ⇒ 1 cold damage
Shadow 6 to hit 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (5) + 6 = 11 touch attack
Damage = 1d8 ⇒ 7 STR damage and 1d6 ⇒ 1 cold damage
Shadow 7 to hit 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 = 12 touch attack
Damage = 1d8 ⇒ 4 STR damage and 1d6 ⇒ 2 cold damage
Shadow 8 to hit 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (8) + 6 = 14 touch attack
Damage = 1d8 ⇒ 7 STR damage and 1d6 ⇒ 3 cold damage

Krays says "Head to your art room! We should have allies there!"

"...Well, then I guess the first most logical thing to do would be to call my dad."

"The second most logical thing is almost certainly a Bad Idea."

"But I'll go there if I have to."

"Well, logically, I shouldn't be telling you so much or destroying Agartha while I'm in it, should I?" By now, several of the animals statues are glowing brighter and one that looks like a miner's pick flares for a moment. "The lycans are getting pretty riled up, it seems."

Fort save: 1d20+9

1d20 + 32 ⇒ (17) + 32 = 49

As the jackal succumbs to the lack of oxygen and collapses, Fei quickly takes the metal frame from the ruins of the smashed table and trusses him up in them, basically wadding him up into an uncomfortable ball of locked joints and immobility.

"My sensei said:
'We each have our talents and gifts, all we can do is use them wisely'. My father always said 'Better to seek forgiveness than ask permission'. I usually go with Dad." he says with a smirk.

Krays sends a telepathic message to his mate...
::Uh, hi honey. How's your day going?::

This time only one of the shadows attacks hits Gill. He once again stops to repair the damage they've done to him, being otherwise content to let them use him as target practice while the others headed off after their quarry. After all, he could always catch up later.

The lycans race after Gustav and the group as they flee towards the art room.

Listens during the meeting, looking bored but politely paying attention. His hackles raise as the scent of many angry beasts come to him.

"A thousand pardons for interrupting, headmaster. But, if I may inquire, do we have a large amount of angry beasts in the school? If we did not before, we certainly do now..."

Krays sends a telepathic message to his mate...

::Uh, hi honey. How's your day going?::

Through their link he can feel fury, betrayal, and fear.

::Not so great, love. So....if one uses evil allies for good ends, does that count as an evil act? I'm probably gonna do it anyways, just as a heads up.::

"My sensei said:

'We each have our talents and gifts, all we can do is use them wisely'. My father always said 'Better to seek forgiveness than ask permission'. I usually go with Dad." he says with a smirk.

She smiled. "Then I guess we should hurry. It's a full moon tonight, so they'll be extra tough to deal with."

Assuming that Enre put the croc down with that last salvo of smack-down... (^-^)

Fei looks around, not seeing any other lycanthropes in the lounge (or outside in the hall around Gustav's door). He quickly heals the two students as he speaks to Enre. (5d6 ⇒ (5, 6, 3, 4, 2) = 20 healing energy to each of them)

"Enre - there is some kind of coup going on between the lycanthropes here. I believe the white-haired woman we saw in the Cafeteria is the one responsible for this - we need to keep this contained before anyone else gets hurt needlessly."

"We must check the cafeteria to see if Krays and Gustav are alright, then we may need to go to the art classrooms to help the one lycanthrope who may be able to make the others stop doing this."

They make haste downstairs and toward the Cafeteria, keeping eyes and ears alert for any commotion on the way.

Ephebe wrote:

"...Well, then I guess the first most logical thing to do would be to call my dad."

"The second most logical thing is almost certainly a Bad Idea."

"But I'll go there if I have to."

"Well, logically, I shouldn't be telling you so much or destroying Agartha while I'm in it, should I?" By now, several of the animals statues are glowing brighter and one that looks like a miner's pick flares for a moment. "The lycans are getting pretty riled up, it seems."

"Just cut it out and give us a straight answer Alton."

Although not quite understanding, Jim pays attention to the entire conversation concerning dragons, champions, et al, while he's trying to knock a hole in this wall.

::No, I don't believe so, Dearest heart. If paladins can do so unscathed, I think you will be fine. I have some angry lycans to deal with, I hope to see you after...::
She feels love and reassurance through his bond, tinged with fear and concern

"Are you sure you want one?" Alton asks quietly. "You would be better off not knowing everything."

Vai tries her best to keep up with her peers, but she is being half-dragged by Gustav as the group flees. She initially felt aversion boarding on panic when Gustav touched her, but she was growing more accustomed to it as they ran. She's huffing and puffing, but tries to speak. "Krays... do you... have that spell... that takes away... tiredness?"

"Alton, I already know enough to have given up the fiction of being the me original to this world completely. I was raised by a demon, my patron lied to me repeatedly about really important stuff, and unless I'm mistaken here someone I trusted implicitly has betrayed my trust about as thoroughly as could be possible. I've had more than enough of secrets and betrayals, thank you very much. Tell me the truth. It'll make a refreshing change."

Listens during the meeting, looking bored but politely paying attention. His hackles raise as the scent of many angry beasts come to him.

"A thousand pardons for interrupting, headmaster. But, if I may inquire, do we have a large amount of angry beasts in the school? If we did not before, we certainly do now..."

"Angry beast...?" Ryo asks before his eyes cloud over. "I regret to inform you that the homeroom protocol is about to be tested. The lycan gang known as the Pack is causing far too much trouble. Meeting adjourned. We have to get the students to safety and incapacitate the lycans before someone gets bitten."

"Your brothers are behind all of this." Alton replies flatly. "Except the lycans going wild. We had nothing to do with that."

Vai tries her best to keep up with her peers, but she is being half-dragged by Gustav as the group flees. She initially felt aversion boarding on panic when Gustav touched her, but she was growing more accustomed to it as they ran. She's huffing and puffing, but tries to speak. "Krays... do you... have that spell... that takes away... tiredness?"

"Yeah! Wehn we...stop I'll...hit you....with it...!"