The Avalon Chronicles

Game Master lynora

This is a high level rules light game set in a school for magical kids, kinda a mash-up of Soul Eater, Harry Potter, and X-Men. :)


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Imagefemale weredragon (amethyst) gestalt Soulknife17/oracle10/divine gunslinger7
.... wrote:
Ephebe wrote:
Amada wrote:
Amada gladly goes to the library with her. "Sure, I'd love to."

"Well,that went about as badly as it could have," she sighed, as they walked down the hallway.

"Amada, watch out!" she shrieked, spotting a moving puddle up ahead.

The ooze pauses, sensing life. It makes a beeline for Ephebe.

She shrieked and backed away as fast as she could.


Male Kobold (Adult Black dragon) Gestalt Sorceror/Oracle Necromancer; Champion of Death

I totally forgot I had a status cast on Ephebe...would that have picked up the emotional rolelr coaster earlier, and her panic now?


The ooze goes by Ephebe but is going too fast on the smooth floor to stop. It crashes into the wall. It regroups and moves towards the pair again (at the same speed).


Imagefemale weredragon (amethyst) gestalt Soulknife17/oracle10/divine gunslinger7
Krays wrote:
I totally forgot I had a status cast on Ephebe...would that have picked up the emotional rolelr coaster earlier, and her panic now?

Hmmm....it's a tough call as to whether she would have been considered panicked or not. The spell tracks conditions not emotions... I'm gonna say no so far. But of course he'd know right away if she were wounded or such.


Imagefemale weredragon (amethyst) gestalt Soulknife17/oracle10/divine gunslinger7

Ephebe slammed a shell into her Caster and took aim at the ooze.

To hit: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (17) + 15 = 32

Slow spell, DC 19 Will


The ooze is hit easily. It begins moving very, very slowly.


Lysander shakes his head.

Draconic:
"Those are questions I cannot answer. The answer to each of them differs clan to clan, and sometimes even Hunter to Hunter. We were not a single organization for long once we came to Agartha, so I'm told."


Male Kobold (Adult Black dragon) Gestalt Sorceror/Oracle Necromancer; Champion of Death
Lysander Sandwalker wrote:

Lysander shakes his head.

** spoiler omitted **

Sighs

Draconic:
"So...there are rules all Hunters have to follow, but others vary from Clan to Clan or even Individual to individual, or is it they're just like everyone else, with both good and evil folks among them? Do Hunters only exist here on Agartha?" Pauses for a second... "Is any one clan especially well known for treacherous actions or lack of concern for innocents?"


Imagefemale weredragon (amethyst) gestalt Soulknife17/oracle10/divine gunslinger7

"Come on," Ephebe said, grabbing Amada's arm and heading back towards the gym. "I don't know about you, but I am not loaded for ooze."

She burst into the gym, gun in hand and looking a little freaked out.

"Mom! There's an ooze wandering the hall! I hit it with a slow spell, but it needs to be contained before it eats someone!"


Jiminy focused his reality bending ability on the pipe the slime creature had escaped from, making it narrower and narrower in an attempt to stop any more overgrown snot balls from getting out.


Draconic:
"That would depend entirely on who you ask. To some, we are protectors of Agartha, to others, we are a scourge within the earth. To put it simple, we were like everyone else here in Agartha. We did not originate here in Agartha, but were sent here by someone(the texts are old and faded, so most don't know who sent us anymore) to kill every single amethyst dragon we could find. Obviously, we failed."

"As for any specific clan.. I am sorry, again it is something that differs amongst our people."

"One thing you should know though, that has nothing to do with Hunters directly, is that it is best if Ephebe stays afraid of me and away from my cousins. I am not choosing sides in this fight between her kind and the other Hunter."

He pauses.

If you or your friends start acting differently towards me, it could tip off the Hunter that something has changed. If he thinks I am an ally, he may target my cousins. After I deal with him I will come after you for putting them in danger, however indirectly."


Ephebe wrote:
She burst into the gym, gun in hand and looking a little freaked out.

"Ah, Ephebe! How goes my star theology student?"

Ephebe wrote:
"Mom! There's an ooze wandering the hall! I hit it with a slow spell, but it needs to be contained before it eats someone!"

"Well, that can't be good. The oozes usually stay in the pipes where there is plenty of food..."


Male Kobold (Adult Black dragon) Gestalt Sorceror/Oracle Necromancer; Champion of Death
Lysander Sandwalker wrote:
** spoiler omitted **

Frowns

Draconic:
"That is unfortunate, but understood. I would not wish for any harm to befall children, no matter the intentions. If he is truly ruthless, he may use them to get you involved anyway, no matter how neutral you wish to remain." Looks serious "I appreciate your candor. Let me return the favor. I do not count you as an enemy, but I see Ephebe and the others as clan members now, and will defend them appropriately. If you should prove to be an enemy, for any reason, I promise that after I kill you and the other hunter, your cousins will be looked after." He looks weary "I hope it doesn't have to come to that." He bows to Lysander "I am Krays, by the way."

I should add here, yes he is a kobold, yes he is a small creature. Lysander may not take his threat seriously, and who'd blame him. But a Sense Motive will tell him that Krays believes he could dispatch him, if it came down to it. It's not bravado.


Lysander bows.

Draconic:
"I understand completely, and would have been disappointed if you had threatened anything else. If you would like to see where we stand in terms of matched power, there is a Snipe Hunt later today. I usually avoid such events, but I could make an exception."

"I am Lysander."


Imagefemale weredragon (amethyst) gestalt Soulknife17/oracle10/divine gunslinger7
Keaton Bloodfang wrote:
Ephebe wrote:
She burst into the gym, gun in hand and looking a little freaked out.

"Ah, Ephebe! How goes my star theology student?"

Ephebe wrote:
"Mom! There's an ooze wandering the hall! I hit it with a slow spell, but it needs to be contained before it eats someone!"
"Well, that can't be good. The oozes usually stay in the pipes where there is plenty of food..."

"I've had better days," she said, a bit evasively.

"And this ooze seemed awful hungry. It went after Amada and I pretty quick."


Keaton Bloodfang wrote:
"Well, that can't be good. The oozes usually stay in the pipes where there is plenty of food..."

Not to sound snippy (I probably will), but the fact that the oozes are secret is rather important in defining Vakkler's character. He does his best to keep creatures like Keaton (and pretty much anybody)out of the sewers so nobody can discover his duplicity. So it kind of irritates me when you seem to take it for granted that not only does Keaton know, but that he throws it out in front of students without any sort of discretion. I apologize if I was unclear about the general knowledge of the oozes, so I'd like to repeat it more plainly: Unless there's a good reason, I'd prefer nobody know about the state of the sewers. If this is too much to hope for, then I'd appreciate at least some token secrecy in front of the student body.


Male Kobold (Adult Black dragon) Gestalt Sorceror/Oracle Necromancer; Champion of Death
Lysander Sandwalker wrote:

Lysander bows.

** spoiler omitted **

Chuckles...

Draconic:
"I like the way you think, but I have already agreed to assist with the inevitable wounded. Suffice to say, I suspect you've a good measure of power if you're willing to casually upset dragons!" He pauses, a thoughtful look on his face "I also wouldn't want to give any third party observers a free show to take notes from, if you get my drift." He nods to himself, then voices his thoughts"You are well met, Lysander, and I hope that when your cousins are safe, I may call you friend. Until then, know that you have my respect, no matter what events befall us. I will not ease Ephebe's or the other's fears."


Male Dhampir Champion of Darkness, Order of the Gunslinger initiate

Asch starts to rush Keaton and skids to a stop as Amada and Ephebe run back into the gym. "Wait what happened?!?! Are you ok Amada?!" He asks completely forgetting about Keaton.


.... wrote:
Not to sound snippy (I probably will), but the fact that the oozes are secret is rather important in defining Vakkler's character.

No, not snippy at all. My apologies. Everyone ignore that part of my post.


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Agreed. Consider it retconned. :)

"Keaton, watch the class for a minute. I'm going to go box this thing up before any students get hurt."

She dashed out of the gym and started looking for the ooze.


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BPs: 32/32 :: Status: Unharmed :: Dodge 18; Soak 21

Spin whispers to Asch…

Asch:
"Krays said something about the oozes being in our room last night… I think it came out of his underwear drawer."

a familiar voice blossoms in Ephebe's mind:
: : Should we try to help your mom or stay here? : :


Imagefemale weredragon (amethyst) gestalt Soulknife17/oracle10/divine gunslinger7
Spin wrote:

Spin whispers to Asch…

** spoiler omitted **
** spoiler omitted **

She blinked. His telepathy was already improving. He hadn't even shouted at her that time.

Spin:

Spoiler:
::Unless you have a good way to fight an acidic goo creature you should stay here. Oozes can dissolve flesh. I'd rather you didn't end up getting digested.::


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Male Dhampir Champion of Darkness, Order of the Gunslinger initiate

Asch whispers back.

Spin:
"Do you think he brought it with him and it got out? Wait Kobold wear underwear?"

He still keeps his eyes on the vampire watching just in case he does anything. He stands next to Amada with one arm around her waist.


BPs: 32/32 :: Status: Unharmed :: Dodge 18; Soak 21

He's not improving… he's embarrassed. ;p

Spin shrugs.

Ephebe:
: : I can't think of anything, but I'm not sitting out if other people are going. Ya never know, maybe I'll surprise you-- : :

The thought is cut off by Asch's whisper, and he whispers back.
Asch:
"Ha. He sure seemed surprised enough by the ooze. His big body-guard guy was the one to see it, actually. And it stole some of Krays's eyeballs... I know, weird."


Male Dhampir Champion of Darkness, Order of the Gunslinger initiate

"Eyes!" Asch exclaims then looks around and drops his voice back down to a whisper.

Spin:
"Why does he have eyes....never mind.... I really don't want to know."


Asch Redgrave wrote:
He still keeps his eyes on the vampire watching just in case he does anything. He stands next to Amada with one arm around her waist.

Keaton waves when he notices the stare but otherwise does nothing but keep an eye on the class.


Aanandareavekki wrote:

Agreed. Consider it retconned. :)

"Keaton, watch the class for a minute. I'm going to go box this thing up before any students get hurt."

She dashed out of the gym and started looking for the ooze.

Aananda finds the ooze 'chasing' after an amused dwarf student. The dwarf is moving comically slow to 'flee' the retarded slime.

Did I use that word in the correct, non-offensive way? I'm not sure it's even usable anymore... :P

Meanwhile, Jiminy sees another slime start to ooze out of the pipes. He seems to have slowed it/them down, but not stopped them.


Imagefemale weredragon (amethyst) gestalt Soulknife17/oracle10/divine gunslinger7

Spin:

Spoiler:
::I'm not sure I can handle any more surprises today.:: Her thought was tinged with amusement and something else that was a little harder to pinpoint, but felt like maybe admiration.

She took a deep breath. Okay, she could do this. Pretend like everything was normal. She was good at that. She'd had practice.

"So, I guess we're not going to the library after all. Might as well stay and finish class then," she said to Amada.


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.... wrote:
Aanandareavekki wrote:

Agreed. Consider it retconned. :)

"Keaton, watch the class for a minute. I'm going to go box this thing up before any students get hurt."

She dashed out of the gym and started looking for the ooze.

Aananda finds the ooze 'chasing' after an amused dwarf student. The dwarf is moving comically slow to 'flee' the retarded slime.

Did I use that word in the correct, non-offensive way? I'm not sure it's even usable anymore... :P

Meanwhile, Jiminy sees another slime start to ooze out of the pipes. He seems to have slowed it/them down, but not stopped them.

Aananda stomps on the floor to bring stones up around the creature and gestures, bringing her hand together as the stone flowed up and around the ooze encasing it completely.

"What were you thinking?" she snapped at the student. "What would you have done if that spell had worn off?! I suggest you think about that since I expect you to write me an essay on the subject tonight in detention!"

"Now go fetch Vakkler Relkav. Underground creatures are his specialty, he should know what to do with this one," she added, looking at the stone box uncertainly. What was she supposed to do with it now?


Jiminy screamed and jumped back as another caustic snotwad escaped from the pipes.


The student nods glumly and heads off.


narrator wrote:
Jiminy screamed and jumped back as another caustic snotwad escaped from the pipes.

This ooze notices Jiminy, and slides towards him.


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She heard the scream and went running towards it. She found James trying to keep away from another hungry ooze, this one not moving slowly at all.

"James, get into the hall," she called out, waiting just a moment to let him go past before bringing up more stone to box the second ooze.

This one is moving at normal speed so it should probably get a reflex save to avoid being trapped.


Aanandareavekki wrote:

She heard the scream and went running towards it. She found James trying to keep away from another hungry ooze, this one not moving slowly at all.

"James, get into the hall," she called out, waiting just a moment to let him go past before bringing up more stone to box the second ooze.

This one is moving at normal speed so it should probably get a reflex save to avoid being trapped.

1d20 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4

The ooze is unable to escape before being trapped.
That sentence reads oddly strange. Almost nearly redundant or something or other...
ED17: l0l 1,337 p05t5.


"The pipe! They're coming out of the pipe. I made it smaller, but all that did was slow them down. There's still more down there," Jiminy said from the hallway.


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She nodded and used stone to cap off the open pipe.

Then she turned around and crossed her arms, looking at Jiminy.

"Do I want to know?" she asked drily.


Male Kobold Expert 6/Slayer 8

Vakkler runs in. "What's going on? Sli--"
The gamekeeper freezes. "What...er...what's that?"


Jiminy blushed and rubbed the back of his neck self-consciously.

"I didn't do it!" he blurted out. "I mean, I was going to do something, but then there were goo balls coming out of the pipes, so I never actually did anything! This time," he added, sheepishly.


Male Kobold Expert 6/Slayer 8
narrator wrote:

Jiminy blushed and rubbed the back of his neck self-consciously.

"I didn't do it!" he blurted out. "I mean, I was going to do something, but then there were goo balls coming out of the pipes, so I never actually did anything! This time," he added, sheepishly.

Vakkler clenches his fist, eye narrowed. "Y-your--ma'am, with all due respect, your son is a born liar. I think it quite likely that these oozes came from him."


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"No, Vakkler, that you're wrong about. James is a born troublemaker, but he's painstakingly honest about it. Not a lot of point in trying to lie in a family of telepaths. I believe him. Although we're going to have a little talk later about what you were planning to do, James," she added darkly.


"Hey, I was just going to release some tiny ice elementals into the showers!" Jiminy said, alarmed at Vakkler's accusation. "But I only got as far as opening up the pipe!"


Male Kobold Expert 6/Slayer 8
Aanandareavekki wrote:

"No, Vakkler, that you're wrong about. James is a born troublemaker, but he's painstakingly honest about it. Not a lot of point in trying to lie in a family of telepaths. I believe him. Although we're going to have a little talk later about what you were planning to do, James," she added darkly.

"Maybe, maybe not. Now, what's going on?"


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"Oozes. I've got two of them boxed up," she said, pointing to the stone box in the hallway and the one in the bathroom, "and I've put a cap on the pipe they were climbing out of. There's still more down there. Not sure how we ended up with oozes in the school, but we obviously can't have them attacking the students. I'm...well, really I have no idea how to deal with these things. I've got them trapped, but now what?"


Male Kobold Expert 6/Slayer 8
Aanandareavekki wrote:
"Oozes. I've got two of them boxed up," she said, pointing to the stone box in the hallway and the one in the bathroom, "and I've put a cap on the pipe they were climbing out of. There's still more down there. Not sure how we ended up with oozes in the school, but we obviously can't have them attacking the students. I'm...well, really I have no idea how to deal with these things. I've got them trapped, but now what?"

"Erm...perhaps put them back?"


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Vakkler Relkav wrote:
Aanandareavekki wrote:
"Oozes. I've got two of them boxed up," she said, pointing to the stone box in the hallway and the one in the bathroom, "and I've put a cap on the pipe they were climbing out of. There's still more down there. Not sure how we ended up with oozes in the school, but we obviously can't have them attacking the students. I'm...well, really I have no idea how to deal with these things. I've got them trapped, but now what?"
"Erm...perhaps put them back?"

"In the pipes? But they'll just get out again," she said doubtfully. "These things were acting really hungry. And we can't have them trying to eat the students."


Male Kobold Expert 6/Slayer 8
Aanandareavekki wrote:
Vakkler Relkav wrote:
Aanandareavekki wrote:
"Oozes. I've got two of them boxed up," she said, pointing to the stone box in the hallway and the one in the bathroom, "and I've put a cap on the pipe they were climbing out of. There's still more down there. Not sure how we ended up with oozes in the school, but we obviously can't have them attacking the students. I'm...well, really I have no idea how to deal with these things. I've got them trapped, but now what?"
"Erm...perhaps put them back?"
"In the pipes? But they'll just get out again," she said doubtfully. "These things were acting really hungry. And we can't have them trying to eat the students."

"Well, gray oozes are ravenous creatures. But they seem to have stayed down there up until your son's little joke."


F Sylph

There is a sudden shrill shriek from the girls' room just a bit down the hall.


The shriek, however, tails off, and becomes a strange roar. Thunder cracks. The now-familiar stink of burned ozone fills the air.

The power goes out.

There is a strange hissing sizzle and then *WHOOOOOOOOMMMM* as the bathroom doors get blasted to smithereens by a meter-thick lightning bolt, along with most of the door frame and the closet across the hall and most of the room behind it.

Nasima-as-Khoda comes floating out of the bathroom, her shoulder and leg both badly burned, probably by acid. Her eyes are like ball lightning and stray bolts are arcing off of her, fusing metal and bursting tile and pipe. She turns and her jaw distends, dropping a sickening inch or two past what it should, and another huge bolt of raw electrical power streams out of her mouth: *SSHHHZKKKKKKKKKKK* Cooked ooze bits splatter out past her, some deflecting off the electrical shield coruscating around her. She fires two more lightning bolts from her hands with similar results, then floats gently down to the ground.

"HHAAAAAAHHHHH!!! HHHAHHHHhhhhhhh"


F Sylph

"hhhhh.....ung" The sylph collapses in the dark on the floor, unconscious again. Her body is still pretty badly burned from the oozes' acid, but the now-utterly demolished bathroom is in far worse shape. There are the completely carbonized remains of oozes here and there, and all the pipes have been fused shut, as have the drains. Khoda apparently melted all the metal and shut every opening with solid blocks of it in order to protect his Channel.

The power is still every bit as out as Nasima is.


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"Nasima!" Alarmed she rushes to check on the now unconscious girl.

She turned around.

"James, get her to the infirmary now!"

She turned back to Vakkler. "And this is why oozes in the pipes are a bad idea. How did they even get down there? Look, you deal with the remaining two. I'm gonna be busy fixing the power for the next few hours. Not to mention the plumbing. I just need to go tell Keaton to take over for the rest of my advanced class first."

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