"Do we need to visit each sphere to help with this ritual?" Wispil asks. "What else would we need?"
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"Well, I knew those maniacs would do just about anything to get what they want, but burning down an ancient guardian of the forest seems a bit much, even for them," Wispil comments. "After we tuck away this mystical marble, we should see about making sure that nothing like this happens again," Wispil says. "Preferably with violence!"
If there is one thing Wispil is good at, it is making a big, watery mess. He conjures elemental water to douse the flames.
"Um...I don't think conrasu are very common. We might want to check on that mystic we know," Wispil suggests.
"Fine!" Wispil huffs. I hope you choke on it!
"Good point," Wispil grudgingly admits. "We had enough trouble rescuing them." Wispil also pockets the carved cubes, just in case.
Wispil tosses a string of unprintably vile curses at the redcap, then waves a wing at the timber sentinel, drawing back some of its plant essence.
◆Extract Element: (Impulse, Kineticist, Primal) You extract elemental matter from a creature's body to weaken it and take its power for your own. Target a creature within 30 feet that has a trait matching one of your kinetic elements or is made of one of your kinetic elements. The target takes 2d4 damage (with no damage type) and becomes susceptible to
your impulses, depending on its Fortitude save against your class DC. --Critical Success The creature is unaffected. --Success The creature takes half damage, and you add some of its elemental matter to your kinetic aura. Your impulses bypass any immunity the creature has to their elemental trait or traits, and the target takes a –1 circumstance penalty to its saves and AC against your impulses. If the target normally has a resistance that would apply to damage from one of your impulses, ignore that resistance; if it normally would be immune to that damage type, it instead has resistance equal to its level to damage from the impulse. You can't target a creature with Extract Element if elemental matter you extracted from it is already in your kinetic aura. These effects last for 5 minutes or until your kinetic aura ends, whichever comes first. --Failure As success, but the creature takes full damage. --Critical Failure As failure, but the creature takes double damage. Level (+2) The damage increases by 1d4. (3d4)
"Make people into mulch? How dramatic," Wispil rolls his eyes. "I wonder where all of this weird wood is from?"
Wispil flies up behind Alessandria and Kiltsi and splashes them with some water to cool them down. "Little too hot in here!"
and resist fire 7 for 1 minute. and resist fire 7 for 1 minute.
Wispil channels his elements, throwing a chilly blast at the hot over, then provides a bit of healing. Mostly, it makes Alessandria smell delicious.
"Because it was there!"
Wispil flies in through a window and starts poking around.
"Figures, we'll have to deal with some fey nonsense either way!" Wispil gripes. "Let's deal with this redcap, first. Who know what will happen to us if we venture into the First World."
"Never seen a tree like this in the Wildwood. Maybe Corazal or Emorga would recognize it," Wispil suggests. "They're both so old, and one of them is a tree."
Wispil activates his kinetic aura, then tries to figure out what is going on with the creature. With all of the wood on this thing, he tries to manipulate its sustance. for
◆Extract Element: (Impulse, Kineticist, Primal) You extract elemental matter from a creature's body to weaken it and take its power for your own. Target a creature within 30 feet that has a trait matching one of your kinetic elements or is made of one of your kinetic elements. The target takes 2d4 damage (with no damage type) and becomes susceptible to
your impulses, depending on its Fortitude save against your class DC. --Critical Success The creature is unaffected. --Success The creature takes half damage, and you add some of its elemental matter to your kinetic aura. Your impulses bypass any immunity the creature has to their elemental trait or traits, and the target takes a –1 circumstance penalty to its saves and AC against your impulses. If the target normally has a resistance that would apply to damage from one of your impulses, ignore that resistance; if it normally would be immune to that damage type, it instead has resistance equal to its level to damage from the impulse. You can't target a creature with Extract Element if elemental matter you extracted from it is already in your kinetic aura. These effects last for 5 minutes or until your kinetic aura ends, whichever comes first. --Failure As success, but the creature takes full damage. --Critical Failure As failure, but the creature takes double damage. Level (+2) The damage increases by 1d4.
"What a stinker! I knew he'd side with the baddies," Wispil considers kicking the corpse, but decides to keep quills out of his webbed feet.
Wispil sustains his spell and sends a dash of healing Gentle Storm's way.
Wispil sustains the roots that pull at the blood of his enemies, then reopens his gate to the elemental planes, firing a blast off at the elananx. He splashes some water on himself to heal.
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Wispil sustains his roots, then flutters up into the canopy and heals himself with his gloves.
"Here's what the wood thinks of you bozos!" Wispil channels all of his connection to the forest, and a thicket of roots grows around the enemies, damaging them and healing Eilwith.
Wispil tilts his head and is careful not to touch the thing, "Disgusting, but I can see how Ghorus started using it. There's a lot of Taldans that would be better off as mushrooms."
Wispil washes healing water over Gentle Storm.
Wispil squawks in alarm at the construct's toughness.
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Wispil showers Kilitsi with a healing dash of herbs, the fires a blast at the creature.
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"There's more where that came from!" Wispil remarks, waiting for Alessandria's flames to clear before raising another protector tree. He splashes a healing wave onto Kilitsi, though his aura starts to steam in Alessandria's fury.
"Blah, an unnatural creature, for all it is made of wood," Wispil gripes. He blasts it with a solid splash of water and flutters up behind Kilitsi.
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Wispil tries to identify the creature as well.
"Metal attacking trees?! Curse druids and their meddling--present company excluded." Wispil groggily channels the elements, firing off a jagged chunk of wood, for all his gripes about druids, grows a tree next to Alessandria.
"Well, this is troubling. Is someone trying to spread fungus over the whole forest?" Wispil asks. On the principle that it will be more interesting, because it was locked, he suggests going to the south door.
"Set up an ambush? I would be pretty interested in whomever is hanging out here," Wispil suggests. "They probably gave somesome dangerous information, at the very least!"
"Well, seems like this Zibik is bad news," Wispil concludes after reviewing all of the evidence. "And Ghorus, classic example of contacting otherworldly beings and being corrupted. Why would anyone do that?!"
"This Gorus really seemed willing to do anything to take down the Taldans, even if it meant taking half of the forest with him," Wispil tuts.
Wispil roots around in his feathers for any scorched bugs that remain: "Gah, disgusting defenses. Any other flowers in here that are going to try to kill us? Or maybe something worthwhile?" The bird pokes around the greenhouse.
With spores all over his teammates, Wispil calls up hungry roots from the ground to drain the enemies' life.
Wispil flies back and channels his elements. "Move out of the way and we'll blast 'em!"
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Wispil eyes the entire grove with suspicion: "We're ether going to get attacked by something or get turned into something unnatural." He looks at the trees, "Well, maybe not unnatural, but not...good. Yeah. Those trees are too tree-y, if you know what I mean. Very upsetting."
"Off to whatever strange floating sphere awaits us," Wispil concludes, fatalistic.
"Well, if you bozos want one more chance at a normal life, I might know a place where you could wash dishes or shovel dirt without being horribly sacrificed," Wispil offers. "Anything else useful you want to tell us? Or should we send you back to Ruzadoya?"
"Tell us everything you know, or you're plantfood!" Wispil threatens the surrendering foes. "Why did Ruzadoya send you here?"
Wispil decides to try to take out the troublesome gnome.
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Wispil fires of a blast of water at the mouthy kobold, then urges a protective tree to spout right in the middle of the room, next to Mal.
"Yeah," Wispil agrees. "Let's give them a good bop on the noggin and see what they know."
"Temple, or hovering sphere? Those both sounds just great," Wispil grumbles. "After what that big tabby cat said, I bet the sphere is some terrible creature from another reality. Maybe we should start at the temple."
"Interesting," Wispil considers. "I thought druids were mostly concerned with this world. Seems like this Ghorus really was unusual."
"That sounds great. We're always on the lookout for historical items that might have been mislaid," Wispil agrees. "As to whether we are clever enough to get our hands on Ghorus's goods, time will tell." "Now, my turn: Did you hear about the druid that wanted to be a barrister? He went to Claw School!"
Wispil starts to fluff his feathers to counteract the flush he feels climbing up his body. "Sure, jokes...I got a million of them. But what do you say we trade? I'll tell you some jokes and you tell us about that dull old Ghorus."
"Well, thank you...I think," Wispil is a little confused by the twisty words of the cat. "We'd be happy to trade some entertainment for some information." "What sort of stories do you like? Have you heard the one about the kholo and with a fever? He was a hot dog."
"Wowzer, that's quite a staff!" Wispil comments when they pool their knowledge. "I wonder if that cat guy ever heard of it?"
Wispil settles in, looking for strange patterns in the leaves of the Foliar Treatise.
He finds the work more dull than stupefying, but he finally makes some progress.
Wispil heals himself a bit and puts his rumpled feathers back into order.
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