Azastre1: Azastre grapples Gretel in an unsavory place and gets clubbed in the head for his efforts!
2: Azastre trips over his feet and fails.
3: Gretel dodges out of the way and Azastre fails to grab her.
4: Azastre grapples Gretel and prevents her from continuing the casting.
5: Azastre sidles in like a baws, knocks Gretel out non-lethally in one blow, and proceeds with what he was doing.
6: Azastre grapples Gretel. After a short exchange of vectors, he finds himself where Gretel was, casting what Gretel was doing.
Azastre heads upstairs.
4 He tinkers with a marble and a silver knife. He creates a
1,6->4,5 stick with a knife on the end. It is a +5 Marble Silver Knife Polearm, but it is too heavy to use on foot. Wan wan wan.
Rod suspiciously avoids the metal grates.
He nibbles on a cham, given to him by a flagged-down waiter.
1 His nibble accidentally was executed as a chomp, and he swallows before he notices. It... it tastes very good. Excellent. The white part is crisp and cool, and the strange mushy seed-filled inner is sweet.
He feels like he wants to eat more.
Ire"
She is one of the musicians in that orchestra, but she is not playing right now. She and her six friends decided to stop here and create a place to rest from the cruel Tower. As an interesting note, people who attempt to ascend from the ground floor at different times go on different paths."
Ire examines the garden. There are generic green plants everywhere in the brick raised areas, and a few short trees, including pine with twisted bark, and flowers. The tables seem to be mismatched, as some are heavy wood, others spindly metal with a glass top, and a few made of silver.
The orchestra playing is a full collection, with many violins, cellos, violas, a piano, a harp, a person with all the percussion instruments, brass instruments, and woodwinds.
There are waiters wandering around, providing food, drink, and the fruit mentioned earlier. Many of the people are in light conversation, weapons stowed or abandoned, and some are staring into the distance.
There is a spiraling staircase that leads up behind the orchestra. Its architectural style is consistent with the other staircases she saw til now.
Ace 2 strides in. Thankfully, the butlers do not seem to have orders to bounce anyone.
He heads up to the woman and
6->1 kicks her in the shin. She turns around sharply.
It
is Sandra, but not as Ace had seen her just before. She has let her hair down to its full wavy length, and a fork is halfway to her mouth. Right now, the fork also happens to be in the wrong position to eat and in the right position to stab an ill-intending gentleman such as Ace.
She relaxes and goes back to her meal.
Kahn glances at his spear. The blood is still dripping off it. Weird.
Arianna finds no strong candy at all.
She chats.
"
Make another house! And do more stuff."
"
Kill people who ask too many questions."
Both reply lightly.