WARNING: Last chance for DAF to post an action. Otherwise, I'm autoing you to helping revive the others, because people are now 'making friends' with liberal application of fire.
Campaign
"I AM A PERSON, NOT YOUR TOY! SOMEBODY HELP ME!"
I have no choice, and I warned him as best I could.
I form a swirling chimney of flame, burning every flame generation charge I have, centered directly on the mage. All nearby fire flows at him, then rises up above him into a pillar of fire. The surrounding air, to fuel the flames, gets sucked in low, bringing everything nearby along with it. for the second time in the course of the Games, I create a fire tornado. Augmented by my desperation, my rage, my sense of betrayal. I go all out in my attack and simply make sure that this treacherous bastard dies for his sins.
Ike... please... save me.
A large collumn of fire appears a few centimetres above Kassiver's head, streaming down towards him. The mage displays amazing speed, not taking more than a second to recover, roll away and start getting up after you release him from your incapacitating effect. But he is still not fast enough to fully escape the fire streaming towards him. Part of his face gets burnt and his robes get singed. He lets out a cry that sounds more like a growl made out of anger than out of pain or fear.
You manage to keep the fire from burning you (you're still very uncomfortably hot though) and start moving it around to form your fire tornado as nearby lights go out. You hear footsteps coming closer and a scream coming from somewhere nearby, perhaps one of those tents or temporary dwellings.
The feeling of coldness continues spreading, rising up your lower arms and going down your palms. They feel cold and stiff, becoming harder to move. You've lost almost all movement on your hands and fingers. The effect feels like it's slowing down, but it is still spreading.
Campaign, Ike!
"Sorry, guys. You're cool and all, but we're a little past rational dialogue at this point."
Make a break for the wizard if he doesn't get consumed in flames and do that anti-magic-stone-in-the-ear trick, on the ear, the nose or a similar orifice, whichever proves handy at the moment. Or just knee him in the kidney sharply if those two guards are faster than I surmise or have tricks up their sleeves.
If Massah Kassah is taken care of already, defensively fight the two guards - focus on dodging and exploiting openings to disarm one of them and then proceed with violent murder (unarmed first, armed second).
"No, wait!" the heavyset guard exclaims, but you're already moving.
You jump back and twist around just as the column of fire manifests and moves against the mage.
You reach him as he's getting up, hold your skull high, scream "BY THE POWER OF SKULLFLAIL!" and smash it into his face (Is it still headbutting if you're using someone else's head?), the metal plate emitting a loud thunk as it hits his forehead and sends him falling on his back. He screams as he falls, probably because the two dark grey stones that were in the skull's eye sockets stab into his eyes, getting embedded there. All in all, a good strike.
The two stones quickly become a light grey colour, dissolving into dust as they do so, their remains mixing with Kassiver's blood and vitreous humour (a bit hard to see that, as he keeps thrashing about). Only one dark grey stone remains in your possession.
The guards sure are quick. They're right behind you, the heavyset one going for you while the other moves towards Irine. The young woman that was watching you screams and runs away.
OOC((For all the talk about not wanting to kill people, to me it appears that Irine brought this upon herself. By things like not cooperating on minor things for some reason. And being more distrustful of Kassiver than he was of her. And keeping up orbs of flame that could be used as a weapon during a peaceful talk. And having all the "if attacked" reactions be of a "immolate him until only ash remains" flavor, with no less-than-lethal ones (even if your abilities are lethal, your fists and legs are usually not). You could even say that she actually wants to kill people a little. But at the same time I'm an asocial jerk who doesn't understand emotions sometimes, so I guess I may be missing something.))
Well, trying to punch a powerful mage while having no weapons or training probably wouldn't turn out very well for her. Like many characters here, she's a focusing on one ability above all others. Not that that's a bad thing, it's simply a matter of power vs versatility. So everything is a nail.
And it's not that hard to see why things turned out the way they did with Irine speaking with Kassiver. I'm certain things would go differently if Ike was in her place, although I'm not sure if they would have been better.
Ninja'd by Lenglon.
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