As Oroth examines Solmyr to notices a particular stain along the center of his back.
Little Kiba strikes true and flame races off the ethereal snake to some effect. He hisses in pain then roars loudly as it continues to fly pass the wolfling and out the reception room door. The doubles the paces and energy of its flight.
:::I heard my Uncle's thoughts. Oh no. It doesn't want me. It's going after the spell pool. Follow it!:::
Tristan somehow breaks away from the group and races after it.
"Get back here you belly-dragger! Slither on back here and fight like you have fangs!"
Shifting in a large wolf, he runs after Tristan and the snake, leaving a stone wolf next to Arielle so she can catch up. Once he's close enough to Tristan, he flips him up into the air so he lands on Lk's back, and keeps running after the serpent.
:::You're a kid mage right? Got any magic that can slow down or hurt it?:::
As Oroth examines Solmyr to notices a particular stain along the center of his back.
Oroth glances over his shoulder as the snake leaves and Tristan gives chase, Lk not far behind. He looks at Arielle, Aidan, Devlyn, and Allura.
"Go after them! I can handle whatever's wrong with Solmyr!"
Turning back to the downed mage, Oroth goes through his spells to try anf figure out what the stain is before he touches it, in case it could spread.
"Solmyr, if you can hear me, I need to know what that snake was and what this stain on your back is before I try and treat it. Just think about what you can tell me and I'll hear you."
Arielle runs after the other two, trying not to be left behind. She could use the wind to make her faster, but she's afraid to use her power, especially here where everything seems to be twisted.
Allura uses what healing abilities she has to assist Oroth in helping Solmyr.
Devlyn checks to see the serpent-thing's trajectory as it flies out of the room and, noting that Oroth and Allura have Solmyr well in hand, he Shadow Jumps ahead of the creature and tries to cut it down before it gets to whatever it's looking for.
Arielle runs after the other two, trying not to be left behind. She could use the wind to make her faster, but she's afraid to use her power, especially here where everything seems to be twisted.
As Oroth examines Solmyr to notices a particular stain along the center of his back.Oroth glances over his shoulder as the snake leaves and Tristan gives chase, Lk not far behind. He looks at Arielle, Aidan, Devlyn, and Allura.
"Go after them! I can handle whatever's wrong with Solmyr!"
Turning back to the downed mage, Oroth goes through his spells to try and figure out what the stain is before he touches it, in case it could spread.
"Solmyr, if you can hear me, I need to know what that snake was and what this stain on your back is before I try and treat it. Just think about what you can tell me and I'll hear you."
He replies in stressed and weak voice. "Can't feel...., hands.... My Pouch...., Potion.., Hurry..." His hands look limp and tremble feverishly.
Little Kiba strikes true and flame races off the ethereal snake to some effect. He hisses in pain then roars loudly as it continues to fly pass the wolfling and out the reception room door. The doubles the paces and energy of its flight.
:::I heard my Uncle's thoughts. Oh no. It doesn't want me. It's going after the spell pool. Follow it!:::
Tristan somehow breaks away from the group and races after it.
"Get back here you belly-dragger! Slither on back here and fight like you have fangs!"
Shifting in a large wolf, he runs after Tristan and the snake, leaving a stone wolf next to Arielle so she can catch up. Once he's close enough to Tristan, he flips him up into the air so he lands on Lk's back, and keeps running after the serpent.
:::You're a kid mage right? Got any magic that can slow down or hurt it?:::
:::I can try!:::
Grasping Little Kiba's fur with one hand, and extends the other hand. Tristan concentrates then fires a bolt of blue energy at the ethereal serpent and strikes it in its mid-section. The entwined creatures lurches at the impact stops and turns to face the wolf and it rider. It begins to grow in size.
As Arielle and Devlyn catches up to the others, she too see the serpent growing larger. Angry, it's poised to attack!
As Oroth examines Solmyr to notices a particular stain along the center of his back.Oroth glances over his shoulder as the snake leaves and Tristan gives chase, Lk not far behind. He looks at Arielle, Aidan, Devlyn, and Allura.
"Go after them! I can handle whatever's wrong with Solmyr!"
Turning back to the downed mage, Oroth goes through his spells to try and figure out what the stain is before he touches it, in case it could spread.
"Solmyr, if you can hear me, I need to know what that snake was and what this stain on your back is before I try and treat it. Just think about what you can tell me and I'll hear you."
He replies in stressed and weak voice. "Can't feel...., hands.... My Pouch...., Potion.., Hurry..." His hands look limp and tremble feverishly.
Allura quickly rifles through Solmyr's pouch looking for potion bottles. If there's more than one she'll just give him all of them as there isn't time to identify anything.
Allura quickly rifles through Solmyr's pouch looking for potion bottles. If there's more than one she'll just give him all of them as there isn't time to identify anything.
Solmyr fumbles through three of the potions Allura hands him and quickly drops two for a shining white vial. Popping the cork, he swallows the contents. Within moments, he rolls away from Allura and Oroth to vomit a fiberous mass of Black ichor laced with blinking eyes. Looking punch drunk, the eyes roll and sag until the mass drains through a crack in the floor hissing with its defeat.
"Gods." His delirious eyes roll into his head. "Get those snakes."
"The one that ran away or the ones that just sank down into the floor?"
Oroth let's his hands hover over Solmyr as a healing glow passes from them into his back.
"Shouldn't mages have a spell to ward off poison? How did that thing get the jump on you anyway?"
Grasping Little Kiba's fur with one hand, and extends the other hand. Tristan concentrates then fires a bolt of blue energy at the ethereal serpent and strikes it in its mid-section. The entwined creatures lurches at the impact stops and turns to face the wolf and it rider. It begins to grow in size.
As Arielle and Devlyn catches up to the others, she too see the serpent growing larger. Angry, it's poised to attack!
Small silver crescents begin to fly past the serpent, and those who look see Aidan is throwing them. They pass around his friends at fly close to the snake... but each one misses by the smallest of margins. After they miss, they reappear in Aidan's hand to be thrown again.
Arielle closes with the snake, swinging her earthbreaker at it with all of her strength, lightning playing about the head of the hammer and crackling eagerly towards her enemy.
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"The one that ran away or the ones that just sank down into the floor?"
Oroth let's his hands hover over Solmyr as a healing glow passes from them into his back.
"Shouldn't mages have a spell to ward off poison? How did that thing get the jump on you anyway?"
"The one that ran away. That thing spilling into the floor," he gasps, "is called an Oneirodemon. It's a parasite, like a tapeworm or a leech but only as powerful as a quasit by itself. It rides the spine of a host and sifts through the nightmares of its host without their knowledge. Once it has what it needs, it draws from the Abyss and the Ethereal planes to give its new body a form. What stays behind, a dying cast-off aspect, usually devours its host's mind. It's probably what they are fighting right now. A magic-eater of some sort."
Grunting and whincing, he points his hand and with an arcane gesture, fire a stream of fire and the floor. Speeping through the cracks, it finds its target. The black mass whines, hisses, then dies.
"Go help Tristan."
The snake creature dislodges its jaw and from its gullet expels more hissing snake-heads each attached to a forked section of its mother-tongue. They spit a toxic goo at Arielle and the others as they advance for combat. Tristan's impulsive magics shields Arielle and Little Kiba with a solid magical barrier. Goo splatters against the walls dissolving holes into it.
The goo dissolves Tristan's barriers as it strikes and Arielle moves forward to level her hammer at the monstrosity. With a solid crack, it strikes sending sparks and jolts of electricity outward.
Devlyn is able to use the shadows to strike the creature of its rear quarters. His blade sinks deep opening a portion of the creature to another attack. But to his surprise the creature bleeds more snakes and they slither towards him and the darkness.
Aiden's Attempt to bewilder the beast only enrages it more. He surmises a more forward attack would be helpful.
Tristan gestures with his hands and armor from seemingly no where fades in and drapes his person comfortably. Little Kiba feels no change in body weight.
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:::Go Little Kiba! I'm protected. We can attack.:::
:::Go Little Kiba! I'm protected. We can attack.:::
:::Since when did you call me "Little Kiba?":::
Not waiting for an answer, and not really wanting one, Lk darts off to the side. He swings his hind legs around and uses the momentum to leap up at the serpent, his jaws aimed right for the base of it's skull.
Careless of her own safety, Arielle swings her hammer at the snake once more, lightning arcing from the hammer's head.
Devlyn, seeing the impending distraction of the wee 'blood snakes', rushes forward and leaps, easily out of reach of the things, and aims for severing the neck of this creature - aiming for a few feet below where Little Kiba is about to clamp down.
:::Go Little Kiba! I'm protected. We can attack.::::::Since when did you call me "Little Kiba?":::
Not waiting for an answer, and not really wanting one, Lk darts off to the side. He swings his hind legs around and uses the momentum to leap up at the serpent, his jaws aimed right for the base of it's skull.
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:::Go Little Kiba! I'm protected. We can attack.::::::Since when did you call me "Little Kiba?":::
Not waiting for an answer, and not really wanting one, Lk darts off to the side. He swings his hind legs around and uses the momentum to leap up at the serpent, his jaws aimed right for the base of it's skull.
"Go help Tristan."
"Allura, if htat snake is anything like the earth creature in the Bazaar, you'll be more helpful than me. Go skin that thing so we can make Tristan some new boots!"
Oroth begins to work quickly, pale golden shining from his hands. He begins to push his magic through Solmyr's body to remove any lasting problems that Oneirodemon left behind, and through Solmyr's mind, working to set it right quickly and without error.
Aiden's Attempt to bewilder the beast only enrages it more. He surmises a more forward attack would be helpful.
Seeing his blades fail, Aidan out an illusion powered by moonfire, causing warriors fully clad in steel armor to heckle the serpent with longspears that feel real.
Lk darts off to the side. He swings his hind legs around and uses the momentum to leap up at the serpent, his jaws aimed right for the base of it's skull.[/i]
LK grips a surprisingly larger chunk of the serpent-thing with its powerful jaw. The creature flays wildly and manages to buck Tristan off the wolfling. Tristan falls forward and slides down the length of the serpents body, like a slide until he lands on the floor. Tristan swings around and flings four newly acquired finger blades. They leap and strike the beast, but bounce off its thickening armor.
Careless of her own safety, Arielle swings her hammer at the snake once more, lightning arcing from the hammer's head.
Arielle strikes the serpent-thing with wild vigor and connects, her blow stuns the creature as lightning arc off at the point of impact. A stray bolt manages to find its way towards Tristan, but the jolt does cut threw his armor, or harm him for anything else. Arielle hears his laughter in her mind.
Devlyn, seeing the impending distraction of the wee 'blood snakes', rushes forward and leaps, easily out of reach of the things, and aims for severing the neck of this creature - aiming for a few feet below where Little Kiba is about to clamp down.
The smaller snake things venture into the shadows as Devlyn leaps forward and over them. His blade strikes true, and only a scant foot away for Little Kiba. The serpent-thing feels it and thrashes more from pain of metal and magic. It manages to buckle Little Kiba off its body. In doing so it whips it tail around and knocks both Little Kiba and Devlyn over an pins Arielle again the wall with its bulk. Her hands and hammer however remain free.
Seeing his blades fail, Aidan out an illusion powered by moonfire, causing warriors fully clad in steel armor to heckle the serpent with longspears that feel real.
Aiden's stratagem works. The illusions succeed in angering the simple minded demon-snake. It thrashes its triple heads wildly at the illusions, spitting foul venom on them to no discerning effect. An opening has been made to strike at the beast again.
Devlyn uses the momentum of the beast's motion to easily tumble and roll back to his feat. He carries the movement back around as he races back in, bringing his double-bladed sword to bear and striking at it while it is distracted, trying to bring it away from the wall and release Arielle before she gets crushed.
Lk slides and slams into a rock hard enough to knock the air out of him, but not hard enough to break any bones. He feels a pressure over most of his body as he stands and looks back at the serpent. His eyes flare when he sees Arielle pinned against a rock, and he roars. As he charges the snake, teeth bared, the air around shimmers ever so slightly into the shape of a huge wolf almost as large at the reptile. He leaps at the creature's eyes, fangs flashing in the planar light...
Unable to really wind up for another good blow, Arielle tries to wriggle free, trying to use her hammer to push it away from her.
Aidan slides in among his illusions, flicking little bits of silver fire at any opening he can find, be it and open mouth or one of the unblinking eyes..
"Go help Tristan.""Allura, if that snake is anything like the earth creature in the Bazaar, you'll be more helpful than me. Go skin that thing so we can make Tristan some new boots!"
Oroth begins to work quickly, pale golden shining from his hands. He begins to push his magic through Solmyr's body to remove any lasting problems that Oneirodemon left behind, and through Solmyr's mind, working to set it right quickly and without error.
Oroth's magics work and allow Solmyr to regain his composure, if not all of his strength. He wobbles once then stands with Allura's and Oroth's help.
"I hate those things. Nearly Damn impossible to find. Where's Tristan? And where did that monstrosity slither off?"
Unable to really wind up for another good blow, Arielle tries to wriggle free, trying to use her hammer to push it away from her.
Little Kiba and Aidan use there abilities to press their attack on the creature. Fang and silver fire inflict some damage onto the creature, Little Kiba more so as he raises his head to bit the creature once again.
Devlyn strike the beast true and inflicts serious damage against the demonic nightmare. As the nightmare serpent shakes and moves, it slides off Arielle. It frees her, but she feels drained as she slumps to the floor. It is brief as she finds herself s soon lifted to her feet by Tristan.
:::Fire a bolt of lightning into my chest. I think I can do something neat with my armor.:::
The young storm elemental looks blankly at Tristan before doing as he asked. Lightning wreathes her entire body and a large bolt of it sizzles towards Tristan.
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Lk falls back, waiting for Tristan's plan with the lightning to work. He circles around the serpent, looking for the right time to strike...
Retrieving his staff from the ground, he looks to Allura and Oroth,
"If you have any innate magics or abilities, I'll need use of them, anything that will work as an evocation or damaging attack. I need to fire a burst of concentrated energy at the thing to effectively kill it all at once." He looks at both and blinks. "Oroth, can you channel divine energy?"
Retrieving his staff from the ground, he looks to Allura and Oroth,
"If you have any innate magics or abilities, I'll need use of them, anything that will work as an evocation or damaging attack. I need to fire a burst of concentrated energy at the thing to effectively kill it all at once." He looks at both and blinks. "Oroth, can you channel divine energy?"
*blink blink*
"Yeah, but I don't know how much. My source isn't exactly easy to feel in this location."
"Yeah, but I don't know how much. My source isn't exactly easy to feel in this location."
"I should be able to channel it through my staff. Lady Allura? Can you aid us as well?"
The young storm elemental looks blankly at Tristan before doing as he asked. Lightning wreathes her entire body and a large bolt of it sizzles towards Tristan.
Surprisingly, Tristan's armor absorbs the lightning, containing it briefly until it builds and discharges from his chest and hands. Electricity crackles in the hall and strike the slithering monstrocity. It twitches and spasms with the bolt but refuses to go down, that is until Oroth and allura grasp the Solmyr's eldritch staff. Taking a part of their powers, it concentrates them and loosens a bolt of energy from its tip. The charge hits the creature dead center and blows a hole out the other side. It convulses violently and drops to the ground. The nightmare disipates like a broken cloud.
"Is everyone okay?"
":::My armor! It's dissolving..."
Tristans looks in awe as his armor dissolves like so much smoke. He looks at Arielle.
":::That lightning was so cool...:::"
It takes a moment for Lk to realize the fight is over, and even longer for him to return to his human form. When he does though, he is shaking slightly. Aidan lets out a victory yell and pumps a fist in the air.
"So, should we get the gem before we run into the other inhabitants of a reptile zoo?"
Back with Solmyr, Oroth grins and relaxes a bit
"Looks like you won't need my help this time. Where to next?"
Sorry about the long period of silence but I have been exteemly busy with perosnal issues, taxes, my health, the bank, and the job this week. I will have something posted monday or Tuesday. I need to review the posts and move thread on from here. Hopefully, I will have you back on the prime material in no time.
"Are you okay?" she asked LK, concerned. "Is there anything I can do?"
"I'm glad you thought it was cool, Tristan. I wasn't too happy about it. I don't like the feeling that I'm being used like a tool. I don't like this place. It's bad. Everything is fuzzy here. It's real but not. I'm glad the snake-thing is gone. Let's get what we came here for and get out quickly ourselves."
Devlyn makes sure the kids aren't injured, then checks with Allura to make sure Solmyr is okay to move or needs more healing.