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[TopHat]

You appear to have lots of names, mr. Poet-inspector.
Could you teach me focus making?

[miauw62]

Mike will test physics in this strange world. If they allow him to fly, he will go to the wool!

[Harry Baldman]

In a bookstore...

Maps is rather intrigued by the many names of the Poet!

~I DO HAVE MANY NAMES, YES. I PREFER TO BE CALLED THE POET, HOWEVER. THAT ONE'S THE NAME I CHOSE FOR MYSELF, AFTER ALL.~

~So, could you teach me focus making?~

~WHY, YES. ALL I NEED YOU TO DO IS RELINQUISH CONTROL OF YOUR OWN MIND FOR A SHORT BIT. IT'S DIFFICULT TO GRANT ANY KNOWLEDGE TO A TENSE MIND, YOU SEE. RELAX YOUR HOLD. I WILL THEN IMPART MY KNOWLEDGE TO YOU, EASY AS ONE-TWO-THREE.~


On a pane of glass...

Mike tries to fly!

[Attempt roll: 6]

She pushes herself off the ground! She rises! She ascends! She flies!

Gravity chooses the next moment to reassert itself and makes her smack into the pane of glass!

[Glass endurance roll: 1]

She crashes right through the pane of glass and begins to fall! It's pretty odd - as she falls, she sees what is unmistakably wood several miles off in the distance in front of her! Below her seems to be absolutely nothing! Well, nothing she can see, anyway!

[TopHat]

chant the empty mind chant, then
use my willpower to mentally beat the poet up and steal his focus-making knowledge.

[Yoink]

"My agenda?"

Timothy smiled his most enigmatic smile.

"You wants to know my agenda?"

>Pause for effect!

"My agenda is..."

>Another dramatic pause! Then telekinetically sucker-punch him through a nearby tree!

[Harry Baldman]

Inside a bookstore...

Maps has a plan! He will chant the Empty Mind Chant again!

[Chant roll: 4]

He feels focused now! Now to figure out a way to mentally punch someone!

[Intelligence roll: ?+2]

Okay, so focus himself this way, then make sure he's thinking of nothing else, then consider the Poet's possible weaknesses...

~I BELIEVE MY GREATEST WEAKNESS IS MY BEWITCHING GOOD LOOKS AND UNMATCHED MANNERS.~

Then that is what Maps will strike at! He goes for a mighty mental punch!

[Mental punch roll: 1]

He manages to mentally punch his own mind out! He feels... oddly detached now. Almost as though somebody pulled him into the backseat of a carriage from the driver's position!

He is moving. He doesn't want to move, but he is moving!

~I LOVE BEING IN CONTROL. SAVES ME FROM HAVING TO ASK NICE EVERY TIME I WANT SOME SCHMUCK TO DO SOMETHING.~


In the woods...

Timothy looks at the expectant Citizen Ernest!

"My agenda?"

"Yes."

Timothy smiles his most enigmatic smile!

[Enigmaticness roll: 4]

It's really quite enigmatic, to his credit, and not in the "what in gods' names is wrong with this guy" way, either!

"You wants to know my agenda?"

"Yes, yes, I do."

"My agenda is..."

[Telekinesis roll: 6]

Citizen Ernest is rocketed off into the sky by Timothy!

"I HAD TO AAAAAAAAAAAAAASK!" he yells as he streaks across the heavens!

"OH, DAMN IT ALL. HE WAS DOING SO WELL, TOO."

[Citizen Lou bravery roll: 6]

"I GUESS I'LL JUST LEAVE ANYWAY!"

[Citizen Lou vs. Citizen Jim: 2+1 vs. 1+1-1]

Citizen Lou awkwardly kicks Citizen Jim away and tries to make a run for it!

[Lou escape roll: 3]

He runs past Timothy, trying to make his escape along the road!

[miauw62]

Mike will use her telekinetic powers to float.

[Firelordsky]

Run into the street urchin on purpose, maybe it's some kind of greeting ritual.

[TopHat]

Retake over my mind in an epic BATTLE OF THE WILLS with the poet

[Harry Baldman]

Hurtling through something...

Mike tries to float through the use of her telekinesis!

[Telekinesis roll: 6]

She instantly stops, which shakes up her internal organs and breaks some of her bones!

[Mike endurance roll: 1]

One of those bones is the spine, unfortunately! Mike has become quadriplegic!


In a town of some kind...

Vincent, the metal guardian following closely behind, decides to run into the street urchin!

[Collision roll: 2]

He trips right over the poor little thing and drops to the ground!

[Endurance roll: 4]

He isn't all that hurt by this, however, and gets up immediately!

[Urchin endurance roll: 1]

This is mostly because he landed on the urchin, though. With his halberds out. The mess is quite spectacular, if he may say so himself.


In a passive state within his own body...

Maps tries to take his own body back in what is assuredly going to be an epic battle of wills!

[Battle of wills: Maps vs. The Poet: 2+1 vs. 4+2]

The Poet proves extremely resilient in a mental sense, and seems to be forcing Maps back even further!

~DO NOT BE SO HASTY! I WILL USE THIS BODY FOR A WHILE, THEN I WILL LEAVE YOU! DON'T WORRY. EVERYTHING'S GOING TO BE ALRIGHT! WHAT'S THE WORST THAT COULD HAPPEN?~

[Battle of wills: The Poet vs. Maps: 2+2 vs. 2+1]

Maps feels himself slowly lose ground within his own mind! The songs of the Poet are ringing through his aural nerves!

[Battle of wills: Maps vs. The Poet: 5+1 vs. 6+2]

He gets pushed further and further!

[Battle of wills: The Poet vs. Maps: 5+2 vs. 4+1]

The Poet proves strong enough to relocate Maps to a distant corner of his own mind! How awful!

~STOP FIGHTING, WILL YOU? I DON'T WANT TO TOTALLY ERASE YOU, YOU KNOW. WOULD LEAVE A TERRIBLE MESS WHEN I VACATE YOUR BODY.~

[miauw62]

Mike will telekinetically hold his spine togheter until it heals. Patience is a virtue.

[TopHat]

Chant empty mind chant
Build up large amounts of hatred towards the poet
Come back with a vengeance.

[miauw62]

((You really want to die, don't you? The RNG just won't let you.))

[Harry Baldman]

Suspended in air in a different dimension...

Mike tries to telekinetically hold her spine together!

[Telekinesis roll: 3]

She manages to move the broken ends of the spinal column back together, but she doubts this will be particularly useful! Spinal injuries are somewhat notorious for their silly unwillingness to heal, after all!

She notices the hairy form of Ekim approaching!

[Ekim fortuitous falling roll: 2]

Ekim falls down and clips Mike slightly, sending her spinning around!


In a decreasingly self-owned mind...

Maps tries to beat that fiendish Poet through judicious use of the Empty Mind Chant!

[Chant roll: 6]

He chants, chants and chants, then chants some more! He chants so much, in fact, that he forgets what he was doing!

[miauw62]

Mike will try to posess Ekim, carefully keeping this body alive.