Jack cries out, but none of his party mates come. He might feel rather betrayed.
5 A hand taps Jack's shoulders. A deep voice rumbles, "Boy, are you attempting to kill yourself, going up the Staircase of Dwarven Doom?" Another hand grips his other shoulder, and with a grunt 3 Jack is detached from the stair and flung to the ground. However, he lost his boot and his sock. The man that saved Jack is tall and thin, with a pair of revolvers like that of Ace's tucked into leather holsters that hang from a belt of vertical slats of metal. The man wears a long trench coat and has a gunslinger hat on that curiously obscures his face in shadow.
Azastre 3 removes the sword in a way that isn't lethal. 5 He then proceeds to initiate spontaneous healing on another person (ie, Sandra) and succeeds. The wound knits and disappears. Sandra looks rather amazed, then smiles at Azastre before getting up.
"I must be going now," she says, brushing her cloak off, "as the Core will not come and be found. Just tell your friend with that codpiece that he shouldn't drink the black potion in any circumstances."
She makes to leave, heading towards the plain stairs.
Ire
"Backal, little one, not Backlal. He's one of the Fallen, who came from the sky many thousands of years ago. Immensely powerful, highly dangerous, and perhaps slightly insane. He, using his unheard-of abilities, usurped the ownership of Sky Tower from the rightful owners, the Progenitori, and blocked off the Tower from the Upperearth. He then disappeared to the Upperearth, and whatever trade existed through the Tower ended. No-one knows for sure what's going on in the Upperearth, but sometimes strange people with guns and flying machines called "rockets" appear.
"The Sky Tower was always blocked off, at least for a couple thousand years. Only the ignorant humans who live outside the Tower would not know that."
Ace cautiously tries to pry gems and precious materials from a surface, but a dragonoid with white skin and red head and tail steps on his hands. His black eyes fix Ace with a Look.
Apparently, the whole floor is all "owned" in bits and pieces.
Kahn 6->3 briefly examines and grooms his 'stache. He considers brushing it a hundred times, but that is slightly overkill for a small patch of hair.
+1 to Charisma.
Arianna
There are various swords, ranging from simple +0 swords of shabby make to +9 magic swords, with all their magic focused on making a better sword. Some swords claim to deliver fifty percent more sword per sword, but they're large and unwieldy. They provide +4 & 50% extra +2.
The cost for a sword is (number of pluses + 6)^2. The 50% more sword per sword sword costs 122 gold Tower marks.
Ingots of metals are displayed proudly, various gold alloys, rose gold, billion, pure silver, platinum, white gold; pure bars of iron, bars of silver, copper, bronze, tin, nickel; a lump of what the seller claims is a thing called "uranium" and stores in a lead box; lead, for that matter, too. There are many gems and precious stones.
Non-charged magic weapons include the aforementioned +7~+9 swords. There are also swords or spears that have a permanent chill or flame or poison.
Easily rechargeable weapons are the ones that can absorb either materials or elemental attacks to use their abilities. Examples include daggers of shock, spears of kineticness, floe mallets, diamond-obsidian saws.
Rod strolls over to the staircase. A thick-set man with huge arms and a bigger axe touches it and looks pointedly at Rod. Rod backs off.
(Exposition yay!
I think we're almost ready to move to Floor 11! :3
There are three staircases up. One, the rickety trapped Dwarven Doom staircase. Two, the plain staircase in the middle of the floor which Sandra is headed to. Third, the ornate staircase Rod is near.)
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