Rhyol, fed up with being a punching bag, slams her weight forward into the infuriating opponent.
'JUST. FAAAAAAAALLLLL!" she whoosh-roars.
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Rhyol lashes out wildly. Luckily for everyone, the Protean creature remains the closest threat.
Rhyol feels no desire to talk the little creatures back to their senses. In Rhyol, a great fire burns. She rumbles across the ground, digging a trench in the rock as she gains speed before launching herself out over the chasm.
As she soars, her magma body shudders and swells. And when she lands, it’s as an enraged thoqqua twice the size of any others. She slams her body into their foe.
Unsure what else to do, Rhyol rumbles around to her right, creating some distance between herself and the rest of the group as she waits to see what the djinn are doing.
Curious, Rhyol follows, adding any assistance the rock-man might need. Rock men usually need much help.
The thoqqua follows along, noting Krakos’s and Jamila’s observations with interest, but adding little of use to the conversation. At mention of the vambraces—and Krakos’s potion—Rhyol finally speaks up. ”I … HAVE NO … WAY OF FLYING.”
Rhyol grinds around the room, poking and prodding at odd objects as she tries to make sense of anything. Really, every revelation—regardless of how small it is—seems unique and interesting to the thoqqua, though she has nothing to add to the conversation. Rhyol happens to be nearby Jamilia’s chosen door when the janni moves to open it. ”I WILL … OPEN IT.” she rumble-crunches. Then, seemingly unconcerned about the damage it might do, she drives her head-spike into the floor just in front of the door, burrowing just a bit to get a peek beyond the door before opening it.
”A TOWER” Rhyol rumbles, her head spike pointing into the dark patch as she is thrown by the destruction, ”THERE!”
As the thoqqua explodes out into nothing, its head-spike pivots to try to follow a tiny object rocketing away … the bottle they need to call the captain. ”THE BOTTLE … IS FLYING AWAY!” Rhyol, a creature used to burrowing through fire and stone, does something she’s never done before … she tries to learn to fly. Well, fall directionally, anyway.
Rhyol's head-spike swivels over to face Jamila. "I FOUND ... A SHINY METAL" the thoqqua rumbles, "IT ... CHANGED ME ... AFTER SEARCHING ... THE CONSORTIUM FOUND ... ME." She settles back into her spot, and concludes her tale, "AND NOW ... I AM HERE. I HAVE ENJOYED ... THE TRIP." The head-spike sweeps to include the rest of the group, "HOW ABOUT ... YOU."
Rhyol watches the team make their purchases, inwardly frustrated that she ate the last of her gold on the trip into the city.
"IT COULD BE ... LEGEN ... DARY."
Rhyol raises up in shock when she realizes she's in agreement with the Oread. "RAZAKIM ... DOES SEEM ... THE SMART CHOICE." She gives a thoughtful shudder, "IF HE ... CAN BE ... PERSUADED."
After getting nudged back by the air creatures, Rhyol does fives a rhythmic CHUFF-ing laugh. ”WELL DONE,” [i]rumble crunch/i] ”SKY PRINCES!” She gives a dip of her head-spike as a bow as they flit off, then grinds along with the group. Not wanting to get into a situation where her temper might get the best of her, the thoqqua follows along with Jamila, curious to see what kinds of airship captain options they will find in this curious city. ”YES” she crunch and rumbles, ”A CAPTAIN … WITH THE TOUGHNESS … TO GO WHERE OTHERS FEAR. SURELY THERE IS … SUCH A CAPTAIN HERE.”
Rhyol begins to rise up in anger, but chooses, instead, to cool her magma. She watches the display and begins giving a strange CHUFF-ing laughter. ”A GOOD” rumble crunch ”JOKE, LITTLE AIR” whoosh whistle ”FRIENDS. I WONDER” shudder rumble hiss ”IF YOU CAN MOVE” ripple pop splork ”SOMETHING MORE THAN A SPECK?” She grinds closer to the creatures. ”A REAL TEST” crack crunch ”CAN YOU MOVE ME?” shudder ”DO IT. AND I’LL TELL THE PLANES” whoosh rustle ”OF THE AIR PRINCES WHO MOVE VOLCANOS!”
Player name: Ben Jolly
The Thoqqua’s head-spike twists and turns to track the conversation. During Ember’s excited monologue, Rhyol’s attention seems to become somehow even more focused, and a recurring shudder turns to be her version of nodding. ”VERY …. INTERESTING” she shudder-crunches. Then turns the head-spike to the Oread, shaking the top-half of her body in a ‘no’. ”MAYBE, WE SHOULD … crunch shudder … GO LOOKING.”
Yep. Good to go.
Let's rock this thing.
I agree. I sent her a PM yesterday or the day before, asking the same thing. I'm really hoping to play this game. :/
So ... we all still here?
As the thoqqa waits for answers, it lowers its 'head' to the floor, momentarily probing at a sword that was—up until this moment—supposedly something set aside by one of the many, varied people in this place. The thoqqa, however, begins slowly ... absorbing the sword, blade first, with its fiery face. A grinding, metal-sheering sound accompanies the thoqqa eating the sword. After which it raises back up, still listening to the conversation.
The thoqqa shudders again, preparing for speech. "AND WHERE IS..." crunch RUMBLE "THIS PLACE?"
A thick six-and-a-half foot length of magma and barbed stone rests coiled next to the table, radiating heat and a rock-crunching sound as its head—little more than a fiery spike on its front end—follows the aerial flitting of the little fire dragon. Its stone plating has noticeable bands of thickened sections spaced at intervals intermittently along its length, and on some of these bands rest strange accessories. An adventurer’s belt wraps around one about midway down, and an amulet is tied onto another on what is best described as a steel chain choker, this one closer to its “head”. As Ashasar details the mission, the thoqqa’s head-spike swivels over and nods slowly as it follows along. Without facial expressions, there’s nothing specific to pinpoint it, but there’s a definite air of pained concentration in the following along. After a moment of quiet, it raises up a bit higher, rearing to a 4 foot height, then its plates begin shifting and shuddering, causing air to rush in an interesting way between rocky plates. ”I … “ SHUDDER POP ”CAN NOT FLY.” WHOOF sigh CRUMBLE ”CAN THE CONCORDANCE …” CRUNCH grind ”NOT PROVIDE A BRAVE” rumble POP CRUNCH ”ENOUGH AIRSHIP CAPTAIN?”
So, did we lose our DB3?
The Pack of Kazes stalk to the south, keeping twelve wary eyes and ears out for little dragon things to shoot with six arcanicly-reinforced, dragon-hating arrows. "DON'T LET'EM WASTE ALL OUR GOOD MAGICS!" he yells out to his teammates as he continues his heart-thumping, screaming song.
Buffs:
See Invisible
Mirror Image (5) - 83% miss chance Good Hope Rallying Cry Haste Prayer
"SOMEONE'S BUFFING AND SUMMONING OVER THERE!!"
The Pack of Kazes ™ amazes you all with his alacrity, spending a few seconds pelvic thrusting as a string of arcane curse words flows from his mouth, interweaved into his head-banging song. When he finishes, you feel your pulse race in time with his music. Your eyes twitch and muscles beg to be used. Then he heads for cover, knowing that bunching up is potentially a mistake, but also knowing that his teammates will need his fear-breaking music.
Buffs: See Invisible
Mirror Image Good Hope Rallying Cry Haste - round 1 of 8
Don't forget Peter in the Initiative lineup :) Who? I KIIIIIIIIIIID!
Not to rush (too much), but let me know what the verdict is. I'll wait til you can give the green-light or do a quick "the walls come down" post before I do anything. And Elric, how awesome is it that your initiative ability was this much of a deciding factor in who goes first?
Yah, by the rules, Kaze's +10 modifier would trump Pyre Claw's +9, though Drunken Hydra 3 beats Gideon's modifier. Unless you want to roll with a homerule or something.
In the mean-time can he tell us a coordinate and one of us just put him there?
You're probably not signed in as a contributor. DM barcas probably has to share the doc with you.
Aaaaaaaaaaand got it. Thanks.
And you upload it straight to the arena doc using the Import function?
Kaze wanders out onto the arena once more, seeing it from this end for the first time. He chuckles his unnerving, yipping chuckle as he draws his bow and begins casting defensive spells. In a blink Kaze becomes six Kazes, and they end with a group spell. Then, seeing and hearing about the dragons, the pack of six Kazes begin nodding their heads to some internal beat. Then they begin whispering… which slams into full-on shouting in time with headbanging as they make eye contact with every team-member.
Okay,I'm still struggling to get my icon on the map. Are you creating a local file with the image in it and uploading that? or is there some format of google doc that can be imported into the arena doc?
Link! Also, that should be the arena map link.
AWESOME! roll initiative in the game thread, right?
oh, sorry, Torinath… Not sure why I didn't realize Peter was your character. Carry on, then.
DB3: Actually, are all of the members of our team starting in one room? I assumed that was the case, but I don't remember you actually saying whether that's the case or not. If they're not, then we need to re-think my group buffs...
MoFiddy: Same thing as I said to DM Barcas.. feel free to spend your monies from Potion of Heroism on something else. I got ya covered there.
Torinath: I see Will Scarlet O'hara's (nice, btw) buff's show you downing a potion of Good Hope. I'm buffing the whole crew with that, though, so feel free to use that buff round on something more helpful. Keep in mind I'm also goign to try to get Haste up in the first round of combat as well. Maybe a Potion of Fly or something? DM Barcas: I'd say the same thing to you. You have a Potion of Heroism listed in your gear (which i'm assumig you were intending to pre-buff with), but the bonuses on that are equal to but don't stack those given by Good Hope... as they are both morale bonuses. I'd suggest you spend that gold (and buff round) on something else. Maybe a Fly, Reduce Person, or Alter Self potion? (the goal of the alter self being to turn into something small sized for an additional +2 to dex without speed reduction? the reduce person would function similarly.)
Cool. I updated Kaze's spell-list to add it and we'll just assume it's the last thing he does every night. Also, now that we have these three slang names, can we re-try a knowledge: Arcana to get specifics? Or would we need to have their actual names in order to do that? |