looking up from the dots she says.
Dracomic
"I live in a city of forever darkness, so that way would make me feel more configurable. Also I would like to know what made the red dots."
She looks into the darkness and starts to make her way in that direction slowly.
GM she go's over to the gray thing with four arms and zaps on of its implants with 2 points of electrical DMG, energy spark. to see what happens.
As far as the darkness goes, Korash's eyes can penetrate into it for a bit, but then it quickly gets too dark to see.
Yet again, the first shadow misses it's mark. Clearly it was a potter or weaver in life. The second and third, however, strike home.
The creature will attempt to cast a spell again, this time only a low powered spell. It will once again focus on protecting it's gestures to prevent it from being interrupted.
While a successful casting of it's spell, it will then prepare for combat to the death with these insubstantial attackers.
Continues to sneak down the hall way.
Any feedback on the red dots gm.?
How are you interacting with them to get more information?
After walking for some time, you come to a T-junction where a hallway opens to the same side as the doors, and the path continues, but the light in the hallway ahead is out. you see a series of reddish-brown dots that sporadically cover the ground.
The first and second shadow both connect, draining even more strength from the insectoid being. The creature seems confused, as if it is surprised that it's magic did not protect it from the shadows. It will then cast on the defensive and move out into the hallway.
As it steps into the hallway, it will see you begin jabbering at you in a language you do not recognize while waiving it's foremandables at you and looking back into the cell. Something about it's body language seems off to you, but it's hard to determine it's meaning.
Ameo will inspect the dots on the ground.
They appear to be flaking and are a reddish-brown in color. They are not all the same diameter, but they are all pretty close.
Even still, Skyscale was a day hunter, or rather... searched through sand and sea and dirt and stone during the day, looking for glints of metal and other such giveaways. So he wasn't sure he liked the idea of walking around in monochrome. It would certainly make things less interesting.
Upon seeing the red dots, he would move closer, examining it, and sniffing at his with his nose, giving it its required cursory examination, before heading off to follow the vampiress once more.
Could this be blood? I better not go that way.
Ameo makes the turn an goes down the new hallway.
In Umbral, he issues a command. "Surrender and explain yourself. Otherwise, my friends will kill you." As he speaks, he attempts a crude pantomime.
She stops seeing sky's tentativenes going into the dark.
if you wish we can go the other way?
The new hallway has the same floor material as the previous hallway, but it's walls have been painted white. The reddish-brown dots migrate from just the floor to the walls and eventually the ceiling. Unlike the previous hallway, there are no doors here.
As the shadows move into the hallway, the creature dives toward you...
...and then positions itself between you and the shadows, who are waiting at your command. It is clearly attempting to protect you from the shadows, while chittering at you in whatever language it is speaking.
Investigating the dots closer, they do not look like lights, but appear to be flaking and are a reddish-brown in color. They are not all the same diameter, but they are all pretty close.
Isabela is unsure of what it is.
He moves boldly after the trail of rusty flakes, examining the rooms in whatever detail he can manage as he follows the more obvious trails deeper into the darkness.
Mjesecar makes soothing "calm down" motions at the creature. He then steps closer to the shades, gestures grandly, and tells his companions to retreat...
Once they're gone, Mjesecar smiles and points at himself. "Mjesecar." He then points at the spider creature.
Korash will follow the others, still at some distance. He is wary, and on guard, but it's probably safer than touching anything himself.
that looks like dryed blood of some kind
She hurrys to follow the faster dragon. With no weapons he's the next best thing. To the plant she makes the universal hand signal to follow.
Draconic
"I'm guessing that's some kind of dryed blood, or the stuff my clothing is made of gone bad or old. What ever dripped this was lousing liquid fast, some time ago, let's see what took out the lights."
"Well that's good to know, how often can you do that, I mean draw your breath to brake things?"
The dragon was far from quiet. Even if he was -wanting- to stealth, which he wasn't, he'd have been so large it'd take a miracle (even with the training of his youth) to make him unseen, let alone unheard. His false bravado only served to make that worse.
Korash may idly poke at the red dots with a thorny tendril, but for the most part he keeps looking backward, watching to see if he is being followed.
And, eventually, he begins to whistle a tune with a few words of Sylvan interspersed. Isabella may or may not recognize it as an ancient Fey war ballad.
She walks behind keeping out of the way of his wings, he was making a lot of sound but that was good, things think twice about attacking when something big and mean sounds like its coming your way.
"The *gibberish* our abductors placed in my body seem to be blocking my *gibberish* so poisoning things right now is hard. But I can make things very unwell. I hope I don't have to that, as I said I am a *gibberish* diplomat not a killer. As for my moving as I did, I can but I have to really *gibberish* and that takes time, and you know I forgot what your name was again? I think we can be trusted with names. I am DM:
Miss Isabela Calista De Romano, of the Blood Clan De Romano its nice to meet you."
She stops and bows low to him.
On hearing Korash sing she looks to be paying heed.
Draconic
"There are words of Sylvan in that song its singing. Just off, the accent is very strong but I think I am getting it."
"Got it, the Ss is long and the Ua's are Ou's there are some odd wording, lot of plant metaphor stuff, self and plant all mixed up as one, but lets give this a try."
@Korash
Sylvan+Korash world
"Plant, singled branch-self-trunk-name 'Isabela' other, you singled branch-self-trunk-name, Question?"
He thinks for a while, trying to do Isabela the courtesy of picking his words carefully and clearly, although some of her word choice makes no sense when spoken in the language of Fey.
"This one is no plant... only look little like one. Just and you are no Kirdu-plucked-of-feathers, only look little like one."
"You are Single Branch Self Trunk Name Isabela? Title is strange. This one is not a Single Branch or Self Trunk. Called 'Korath'. Eight grand master, unwilling silencer-of-savage-beasts... but now it does penance for coward captors' sins."
She looks at the plant thing,
@Korash
Sylvan+Korash world
"Yes now plant, I am 'Human kind' my name is just 'Isabela' you are 'Korath' Kind I don't know. You say you sin'ed, we taken here, we no ask to be, by who we don't know. do you know who did this? you call them 'coward captors' is that who they are, where are they?"
Then in draconic
"I am getting it now, its hard going a lot of what it says is alien to me, but its name is 'Isabela'"
She keeps pace all the time with the Dragon in front.
Korash shakes his head. Barbarians, maybe, but at least they're not bloodthirsty.
"Tyran Empire," Korash responds, "Pillagers and slavers of my homeworld. After many years broke free, attacked one of skyships with bare hands. Woke up here, purgatory or prison."
"Unfamiliar with your 'Human.'"
Sylvan
"Do not know Tyran Empire but know of Pillagers and slavers, you home was a slave world yes? I see and you fight for freedom. You where hurt and then woke up here, purgatory we think not but prison or zoo maybe. We all seem to be from places non of the others know. I have traveled the grate arms of the Galaxy seen a 1000 and more worlds in a 100 star systems. But I have never seen ether of your kind before. I am a agent of my Clan, my designation that of a diplomat, may task to help with trade and communication with other races. I use words now but I can."
She walks and seem to be concentrating hard, then her mind brakes into both SkyScales and Korash's
-Telepathy-
::"I Normal communicate directly to minds like this, but its very hard for me right now, something is hampering my ability's, even this simple communication is taking all my concentration. I need a means to free myself of what ever is blocking me, I think the metal objects like the ones on me and Korash. Once I am we can all communicate much better."::
Sweat can be seen on her face as she ends her short message to there minds, it seem to have taken a lot of work on her part. She puts her hand on the wall and rests a moment, rubbing her forehead as she dos and taking a few beep breaths.
GM can she take 20 on a power use like telepathy.
Min1
Ameo feels very uneasy about this place, but continues on as he has no other choice.
What are those dots? What the hell is this place?
He keeps walking down the hallway, stealthfully while investigating everything as he goes.
Are you keeping the doors on your left or right?
As your group moves into the darkness, you begin to hear the sounds of.....something moving around in the darkness with you. It is not currently visible, but there is a horrible skittering noise, almost as if it wants you to hear it.
With the shadows gone, it visibly relaxes before turning back in your direction. Casting another spell, it will say to you (in your native language, none-the less!) "Greetings. my name is [thorax]. Are you hurt by those creatures? Are you a prisoner here as well? I was forced to draw upon my most powerful healing magic to repair the harm that I was afflicted with by them; I also managed to shake the [humanoid] that has been tracking me. Do you know how you have come to be here?"
[ooc]The words in the brackets are words that were not translateable even via magic.
As you make your way down the new hallway it curves, ending an a large door made of the same material as the doors from the closed cells that you passed. as with the cell doors, there is a metal pad next to this door; it appears to be smoking slightly.
You can't take 20 for this, because it seems that if you fail to draw upon the power to use things like your telepathy, you will continue to fail to do so. Time might be a factor in this regard.
Korash holds up his hands and shifts his weight around nervously. "Hush now. And listen. Things coming."
Anyone looking very closely at Korash might notice his skin hardening and shifting as he prepares for a fight.
Having never seen a keypad before, he has no idea that the door maybe locked. This is all quit strange to him. On his world Everyone uses magic instead of technology.
Why would there be smoke coming from that metal box? What could that be? Perhaps some sort of communication device? Maybe it is broken.
He speaks into the device next to the door.
Hello? Is anyone there? Hello? Why am I here? Anyone?
Ameo will attempt to open the door.
buffs or powers.
Psion Discipline ability x2+1
1:Detect Psionics utility
2:Mind Thrust 1d6 DC24 [no pp cost]
3:Conceal Thoughts buffs
Talents: 5
1:Empathy buffs
2:Far Hand utility
3:psionic-repair utility
4:Energy Splash 65'
5:Know Direction and Locationutility
1st level powers 1pp
1:Attraction buffs
2:Mind Thrust +1d10DMG DC24 [+1DCper2d10] Max 8pp 8d10 DC28
3:energy-ray DC24 8pp 8d6
4:Inertial Armor buffs
5:precognition Defensive buffs
2st level powers 3pp
1:read-thoughts utility
2:sustenance utility
3:brain-lock DC24 [Feeding power]
4:cloud-mind DC24 /8 DC30 65'
3st level powers 5pp
1:telekinetic-force 180' DC24
2:body-purification utility
3:concussive-onslaught 3d6 8r DC24
4:empathic-transfer DC24 [1/2] 50HP
-:Metamorphosis buffs
4st level powers 7pp
1:Mind Control buffs
2:Fold Space utility
3:psychic-reformation utility
4:augured-answer utility
If that is all she can use and she has no idea she can, she will be out of time trying in combat and out of PPs in no time at all. Buffs are needed as AC powers is a real thing in Combat that make a Psion not dead real fast.
Just so you know GM.
Waits as the others hear things.
no dice, unfortunately. The buzzing static prevents you from drawing upon your inner power.
Skyscale shouts out a challenge into the darkness, and the noise stops, but there is no other response.
There is no immediate response, but the repeating voice that you hear in the background does get a bit louder the closer to the door you get.
After walking for a bit, you reach a t junction, where there is a new hallway off to your left, and the hallway ahead of you goes into darkness.
Ameo attempts to open the door.