Campaign
Irine, Campaign
Continue to do River's will.
You finish putting all the pieces of this section back together, but there are still some missing.
Frustration.
He focuses on the concept of power and wishes for it to be transferred to you.
You feel yourself becoming stronger, feeling better, like you could do anything, even as he starts feeling more tired.
You see a vision of a missing piece. It looks completely different than the others, more organic, less ordered. But you think it should work. It feels like it would fit.
You focus on the power you have received and the image he has given you and the piece starts forming, filling the gap.
He's feeling tired. But he also feels like he must continue.
I need more power. Could I take it from here? Should I contact him? Or would he consider that against the rules?His thoughts and glimpses of memories filled with anxiety are interrupted by a voice.
"Help. I need healing."Fear. Protectiveness. Surprise.
Already?The link between you breaks and the images you see dissolve, becoming unintelligible without his thoughts to provide a framework.
You feel his body move away from yours.
You let go of the rods, open your eyes and turn around to see Zechariah coming up the stairs with half of his face burnt and bleeding slightly. His clothes also look like they were burnt by something.
"What happened?"Campaign
Action: Continue last action!
You keep walking until you reach the room Darkstar, Irene and Theri is.
You climb up the stairs. Up there is Irene with her hands touching two of the glowing rods. Darkstar is behind her with his hands over hers, roughly matching her posture, which is made a bit more difficult due to their height difference.
"Help. I need healing."He lets go of Irene and turns around to face you. He looks tired, his movements slower, his tail limp, his body stance lower.
A second later, Irene does the same, although she doesn't look tired.
"What happened?"
Nikolai: Campaign
"Fuck you tentacles."
Point knife at it and tsar.
Campaign, Ike!
"Hey, it's a yellow land octopus!"
There's doors that respond to touch and behave like funny glass bubbles. Behind the one to the left is what can best be described as a dark spider singularity. It seems to mean us harm, which is further evidence of its spidery nature. It has already given Jesus a fire and shockwave-based makeover. Also, the shadows vibrate and absorb sound at the same time.
Jesus smells okay, in other news.
River increasingly reminds me of Ted.
Yellow land octopuses are apparently present and possibly quite dangerous!
Get my octopus killin' knife, and stab that yellow land octopus in its cold, cold heart or perhaps its most important artery. Stab until results are had or results start to appear impossible.
Despite the fact that he is starting to near unconsciousness, Nikolai manages to untsar his backpack and put all of his energy into his knife. The knife transforms into an ornate claymore with a small red jewel on its golden handle.
The combination of the enlargement of the knife accompanied by the deflation of the giant backpack below him allow him to twist his hand enough to allow him to cut most of the tentacles holding his claymore wielding arm. They cut pieces fall to the ground, twitching. But all is not over yet.
The sword is a bit heavy to use efficiently with one arm and his body isn't in the best of states. He tries to slash the rest of the tentacles but he can't quite manage to lift it enough. The central part of the creature is almost upon him now, hovering about a metre above his head.
Luckily for him, Ike has used the distraction Nikolai provided to get into position to attack the creature's heart, choosing the side which has the least tentacles. Despite its apparent lack of sensory organs, it seems to know Ike is attacking. It uses one of its tentacles like a whip, trying to hit Ike in the head, but he easily sidesteps it and counter-attacks with a slash that almost severs the tentacle in half. That done, he jumps towards the creature's central part, aiming to stab it. It barely manages to evade his strike by pulling itself away.
Campaign
Huh. Huh. Heh. Wheeze. wheeeeeeeeze. I'm wheezing here, goddamn.
Summon electric scooter and go the rest of the way! Try to make it have a little rubber horn on it so I can honk it when I arrive.
A glowing wooden wheel hits you in the back of your head and then disappears along with your bellows.
Perhaps the universe is trying to remind you that scooters are not common household objects.
Anyway, you arrive at the scene to see Ike and Nikolai engaged in combat with a "yellow land octopus" as Ike described it, a yellow sack of pale flesh with a large number of wire-thin tentacles coming out of it. Ike has managed to go around
"behind" the creature and is currently trying to stab it in the central part with his knife. Meanwhile Nikolai is under attack by most of the thing's tentacles who are keeping most of his body immobile, except for one of his arms, with which he is trying (and failing) to wield a claymore (the big sword, not the mine). There is a number of severed yellow tentacles twitching on the ground below.
Map:
http://i896.photobucket.com/albums/ac165/parisbre56/map5_zps3ab54ea8.pngRiver (NPC) ->
BlackTheri (Tiruin) ->
TurquoiseIrene (Lenglon) ->
OrangeZechariah (DarkArtemisFowl) ->
Light turquoiseIke (Harry Baldman) ->
PinkAlan (Xantalos) ->
RedNikolai (NAV) ->
Green
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