In the lair of the unbelievably thick Head Diviner...Samuel is greatly annoyed at the Head Diviner because the Head Diviner appears to be a total idiot! But even total idiots can wield powerful magic, so he tries once more to achieve a coherent dialogue!
[Nonverbal communication roll: 3]
He gesticulates wildly, pointing at his nonexistent lungs and glaring at the Head Diviner! The Head Diviner remains puzzled.
"You want something else then? Soup, perhaps? You couldn't eat that very well either, I'm afraid. It's mostly liquid, you know. Although I don't know how you'd eat anything solid either."[Nonverbal communication roll: 6]
Samuel breaks into a grand routine of charades! He starts with simple concepts, like "bird", "wizard" and "sky"! Then he follows up with an explanation of how sound works! It takes a while to explain the ear's structure, but the wizards seem to get it eventually. Samuel then goes into detail on how exactly a human being can produce sound, using a wizard in the room as an example. Soon enough the wizards understand how a human's vocal folds work.
"I think I've got it now, skeletal friend! Most educational! But what was the point of it all?"Samuel points at the Diviner's throat, then back at his own.
"Oh, you can't speak because you're a bloody skeleton, is that it?"Samuel nods.
"And what bearing does that have on today's matters?"Samuel slaps his skeletal palm on his equally skeletal lack of a face, then waves his hands like a wizard and points toward his own throat again.
"You want me to give you a throat? I'm afraid you're in the wrong place for that. The Metamorphosis Department is what you want."Samuel opens and closes his jaw several times, then points at his head, then the Head Diviner's!
"You want to eat my brains to make up for your lack thereof? Egads, how uncivilized!""Perhaps he wants to learn how to speak telepathically?""Speak telepathically? What a marvelous idea, Jenners! With quick thinking like that, we could have solved this entire problem half an hour ago! Hold on a second, I'll open a channel."He waves his hands. Bridges of light appear between his, his compatriots' and Samuel's head, then disappear!
~Right, now we can communicate through the power of our minds!~[Samuel mental communication roll: 2-
1]
~Before stating my purpose here, I would like to express my great displeasure at what could only be described as the purest thick-skulled idiocy on your part that caused me to waste a whole half hour of my unlife that I will likely never get back. You are a complete idiot, Head Diviner, and I want you to know that these words of pure annoyance come from the very bottom of the heart I lost in the mining accident the day I died.~[Rebound roll: 5]
~But I am truly glad that we can finally start our discussion, because I am here for a very good reason. I am of the opinion that magic is a force that I could potentially command as part of my arsenal. I already have a focus and am ready to cast spells, but I need to be able to exercise better control over them to be able to use magic reliably.~~A focus, you say? Where did you get it?~~Why, I made it myself through force of will alone. Is that unusual?~There is a mental gasp throughout the room!
~Most unusual! You must have a great talent for magic! Or you are somehow connected to forces of a demonic nature! Either way, you must be studied and trained!~~How long will this training take?~~Not long, I think. Four years, maybe five if you're a slow learner. But something tells me we won't have a problem with that, now will we?~Outside, in the midst of a swirling sea of angry people..."I say, you people have dreadful manners! Impose on a gentleman's zone of private space, will you?"Jordan, realizing that he needs to get some distance from the crowd, begins hacking through the wall!
[Homewrecking roll: 2]
The wall is slightly scratched by Jordan's axe blade! Oh well, guess he'll just have to kill all of these louts, then.
"What wonderful weather we're having, eh?" "You're telling me! Almost makes me want to-"[Jordan vs. Mob: 5+1 vs. 1+4-1-1]
Jordan begins hacking like a madman! Heads, legs, pitchforks, arms and bucketloads of blood fly everywhere! It's a veritable massacre! At least forty-three people are killed in Jordan's whirling death frenzy, with about thirty-seven more horribly injured!
[Crowd morale roll: 5]
The crowd collectively roars and charges at Jordan!
"If we die, we die as free men!""And women!"[Crowd vs. Jordan: 2+
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2+
1 vs. 5-1]
Jordan keeps on chopping, fatally repelling ten more people and maiming several more! The failed charge of the crowd makes it run out of revolutionary steam somewhat!
"I say, those dead people don't look like very free men at all!""Or women, either!"
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