Wizard 3
General Feat:
Canny Acumen (Fortitude)
Skill Increase (Expert)
Arcana
New Spells:
Dispel Magic, Scorching Ray
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Tettia looks over the kobold ex-chieftain with disdain. "I believe we should deliver him to the authorities," she declares. "He has destroyed no small amount of property and put many lives in danger. The full extent of the legal system should be loosed upon him." She gives a quick nod as if this was clearly self-evident.
After grasping at the amulet dangling around her neck, Tettia sends a second trio of magical bolts at the stubborn chief.
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With her ongoing spell now affecting her companions more than the enemy, Tettia lets it drop and the magical grease vanishes from the ground. Mentally clutching at one of the dragon scales with an arcane utterance, she flings it at the kobold. "I don't think he's going to give us that option," the young mage replies to Lucius.
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Noticing the side-eye, Tettia shrugs. "What?" she questions defensively. "I wrote an essay on Barnels for my Theories 404 class and I got full marks on it."
Tettia's eyes narrow as she sees the kobold's spell manifest. "Think you're so clever, don't you?" she mutters under her breath. "Did you know, though, that Barnels demonstrated that refracting optical manifestations have absolutely no effect against elements that target essence cores?" She smirks before sending a trio of arcane missiles directly at the chief.
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Avoiding the magical webs doesn't reduce Tettia's annoyance and she directs her own area-effect spell to include all three of the kobolds. She follows up with a magical defensive shield.
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Tettia's face turns beet red in surprise and embarrassment. Turning away, she makes a show of gazing intently at the oiled surfaces as if seeking a potential trap.
"They said 'Stop'," Tettia offers quietly, keeping an eye on the kobold defenders. "And I don't really feel that attacking kobolds that are defending their young is something that noble adventurers should be doing."
Tettia rolls her eyes and magically propels another loose stone at the kobold priest.
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Another thrown rock.
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Still trying to decide if petty theft falls under the heading of 'civilized action', Tettia can't deny that skeletons with sharp, rending claws are, in fact, a direct threat and so she responds in kind.
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Tettia gazes at the statue for a moment, frowning. Something nags at the back of her mind from her various religious studies courses. Infernal maybe? Nothing specific comes to mind, though, and she shakes her head. Her first instinct is to bash the kobold in the head with a telekinetically flung rock before he notices them, but her face reddens in embarrassment at such a ruthless thought. I am becoming some sort of brazen thug! What would Toddy think of me? She waits for one of the others to take a much more civilized action. Current Status/Spells:
The dark rings under Tettia's eyes reflect the late hours she'd spent updating her prodigious notes and sketches from the previous day while the memories were still fresh. "Well, at least those are weapons that they're not using against us, right?" she says with a half-hearted smile at the well-stocked armory. "Down we go?"
Tettia checks the notes she's taken against Lucius' account of their adventures. She observes some ... gaps ... in his relating of the events to the Baroness, biting her lip to avoid verbally correcting him. Once he's finished she looks around at the others and then back at the woman standing over their table. Without saying anything else she returns her notes to her bag.
Tettia ponders the aged kobold's final words for a moment. "I'm beginning to think that this 'Lord Aeteperax' will be a challenge to deal with," she says after some thought. "Perhaps we should rest up before descending further into their lair? I mean all I can throw at it would be cantrips and I don't know if that would be suficient.." Current Status/Spells:
Tettia frowns slightly. After relaying the kobold's answers to her companions, she continues her questions. "Tell me more about Aeteperax. Have you seen them? What do they look like? What powers do they have?"
Tettia glances at Jaidu before hesitantly raising her hand. "I took three semesters of conversational Draconic," she says with shrug. "I mean if you can really call it 'conversational' when it seems like every third word means gold or blood." She giggles nervously. "What kind of conversations are you really going to have?" She turns to the prisoner and takes a more formal posture. "Who is your master, where are they, and what are their ultimate plans?" she questions in Draconic what she hopes is an intimidating tone.
In response to the battlecry, another stone soars through the air courtesy of Tettia's magic.
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Tettia catches herself about to raise a question to Lucius regarding an obscure aspect of his stone step summoning, but realizes that now is probably not the most appropriate time. Instead she reaches out magically and flings a large stone at one of the kobold attempted-ambushers.
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Smart enough to know that she'll never be as sneaky as her companions, Tettia still attempts to make as little noise as possible as she follows along.
The young woman seems about ready to argue Lucius' assertion when the toad in her hands lets out another long croak and she looks down at him with a frown. "I wasn't going to argue," she whispers. "I was just going to point out that I was at a distance. It's not my fault if they decided to swing at me with a polearm." Brrruuuppp. "Well, yes, that is a form of argument, but I was only correcting his assumption." Brrruuuppp. "There's no need to be rude," she whispers and then returns the amphibian to his travel bag without giving him a chance to castigate her further.
Tettia sits up awkwardly, confusion coloring her face. "Am I dead? No? Did we win?" she questions. Brrrrrruuupp. "Oh. Thank you, Wallace. I was confused there for a moment," she says, pulling the toad from his special pouch. "I don't think I like getting hit like that. I should try a little harder to not let that happen." As Jaidu moves through the group tending to the remaining injuries she makes a point to thank him. "I very much appreciate your efforts," she says with a slight bow.
Tettia also turns her attention to the kobold that Lucius is aggravating.
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Instinctively, Tettia raises up a spell of protection in front of herself before sending a nearby rock flinging through the air towards one of the attackers.
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The hollow 'Thunk!' sound that Dawn's weapon makes when it meets the fleeing kobold's head causes Tettia to flinch and recall the time that she and her sister experimented with Kasa melons by dropping them from the roof of their family's townhouse to the cobblestones below. "That sounded ... painful," she mutters to herself. And by the way the small figure lies still on the ground, the kobold would probably agree ... if he could. "Do we ... tie him up or ... something?" she questions, hoping against hope that the response doesn't indicate something more brutal.
Tettia frowns slightly when Nighttail describes what wizards look like, but she doesn't say anything. As the kobold is tending to her friend, the young woman moves close to Lucius. "I don't smell like sausages, do I?" she whispers. "My sister Toddy gave me some perfume, but I always thought it was kind of silly. Should I be wearing it?"
With the clock ticking on the sleeping kobold, Tettia maneuvers to get a better view of the remaining enemy. Reaching the edge of the bridge, she concentrates before sending a medium-sized stone flying through the air towards the kobold.
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Actually relieved that she doesn't see more rats, Tettia smiles. The elevated mood quickly fades when she realizes that their enemy has higher ground and with crossbows that's not nothing. Her eyes narrow as she takes in the situation. With a quick nod, she begins a different spell, targeting the center of the kobolds. She then gestures and a shimmering disk of force appears in front of her.
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Lucius puts a calming hand on Tettia's shoulder and says "It's over. You can relax now." At Lucius' touch, Tettia jumps with a muffled squeak. She seems to take a moment to pull herself together before replying. "I'm sorry. I just really don't like ... rats." She shudders at the reviled word before following along with the others. "What are the chances we'll see any more anyways, right?" she adds with a giggle that sounds very forced and on the edge of hysterical.
Crisp, electric-blue arcs of energy continue to pour from Tettia's hands causing the dead and roasted rats to spasm and bounce. It isn't until the bodies begin to emit an foul acrid stench and threaten to burst into flames does she finally cease her magical onslaught. Pressing her back against one of the rough, stone walls, the young wizard's widened eyes search left and right, frantically seeking more of the disgusting rodents - her shaking hands kept in a readied position to send sparks into whatever appears.
With her eyes wide and full of fear, another arc of power snaps out from Tettia's shaking hands.
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"Aaiieeee!" Tettia screams out, her hands flailing in her attempt to cast a panicked spell at two of them.
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Tettia nods eagerly. "I can certainly do that. It's like when I talk to my father, I have to ..." She pauses and her eyes narrow in suspicion. "Waaaiiittt a minute ... I think ... Are you teasing me?" ---- "But ... but which cave should we try?" the young wizard questions as Dawn strolls boldly towards the yawning openings.
Tettia retrieves her journal and flips back a page or two to the sketch she made of the elderly man. Next to it was her attempt to show the man as he would have looked had he not died in such a manner. "I don't know," she says after a moment of careful study. "I would imagine that even kobolds would be aware that he's ..." she shrugs, "... dead." Realizing only a moment later how that sounded, she turns a shocked face towards Jaidu. "I'm so sorry! I wasn't trying to imply that kobolds weren't ... I mean, they ... you ... really know what you know and ... and ..." With her face turning a brilliant shade of red, she covers it with her hands. "I'm sorry," she repeats.
As the others sort through the detritus of the kobolds' nest, Tettia adds more notations to the carefully drawn map in her sketchbook. "... and three kobolds ..." she whispers under her breath before stowing away her tools. She looks up at the others. "So does anyone have an idea who this 'boss' or 'chief' is that they mentioned?" she asks.
There's another snap and blast of ozone as Tettia sends more electricity into the remaining kobold.
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With multiple opponents, Tettia is excited to put her shock spell to use - sending an arc of electricity from one kobold to the one next to it.
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Tettia looks back through the tunnel they just navigated, at the nearby walls, and then forward towards the exit. "This seems strange. The direction that they dug seems ... not random, but not ..." She frowns and then shakes her head. "It doesn't seem right, but I don't understand it." This clearly vexes the young woman as she makes some notes in her journal.
"Perhaps Jaidu could do something about that?" Tettia offers, with a hopeful glance at the kobold.
After stowing her drawing tools, Tettia takes a closer look at the subterranean incursion. "This is recent," she says after a bit. "And see these marks?" She points out various sharp marks in the earth. "This is from a shovel or something like it. And these marks are probably from picks." She steps back closer to Lucius. "It wasn't a beast or monster. It was one or more people of some type or another."
Tettia looks over the excavated tunnel with interest. "So, was it him that dug this or was it something else?" she questions, pulling out her sketchbook to immortalize the creature and the wreckage.
Even without having gotten full marks in her Religious Studies courses, Tettia recognizes an undead when she sees it. Keeping the brave warriors between herself and the creature, she sends a large stone flying towards it with a minor cantrip. Her aim suffers from her position, though.
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Tettia bites her lip and looks away from the flexing and muscular display. She doesn't lose track of the clockwork, though. She also waits on its response.
It could be due to the dangerous exertion, but Lucius is positive that he can see the young wizard's cheeks pink up. "Yes ... umm ... thank you," she stammers. "I don't usually spend my time jumping over noxious liquids." She laughs nervously.
Tettia shifts her bag to a better position on her back and then tentatively crosses awkwardly with Lucius' assistance.
"And do you know why the tower collapsed?" Tettia questions.
The young woman's eyes widen at Lucius' question. With all her knowledge, she wasn't used to people asking her opinion. "Um, probably?" she replies. "But I wouldn't recommend taking the boon. I wouldn't want to be in debt to him for anything." Her confidence grows as she talks. "Manipulative agreement makers rarely place themselves in a position to come out with the shorter stick in such negotiations and he's been repeatedly vague on the nature of the obligation." She stows her sketchpad and stylus. "I would take whatever information he can provide - treating it with appropriate skepticism - and leave his offer of a boon on the table."
"And that's all with no obligation or cost on our part, correct?" Tettia pipes up before slipping behind Lucius. Her sketchbook returns to her hand and she begins working on a rough rendering of the little bargain maker.
"I think he's placed an enchantment or charm on her," Tettia can't help but explain. Grasping at the necklace about her neck, she summons more mystical bolts and directs them at the wounded creature.
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