Staging Area
"Do we need to conclude this fight? Or shall we just head to the mission now?"
If my opponent feels no need to finish the fight, head to the briefing otherwise, if he takes any hostile action (like moving towards me) see below
Charge, and use telekinesis to knock him into my assault. Try to finish him.
Well... Urist appears to be missing for the past 6 days... Let's declare this a draw and give him a couple more days before I start the mission.
If bar has any flammable alcohol, grab it and go outside.
You ask for a bottle of pure ethanol and then go outside after receiving it, joining those guys below.
((Is my magnet is the orb one or the object one?))
"Hello there, explain what's going on. I don't know what to do here."
Stand still. Defend myself.
((I... don't understand? Its an effect with an invisible and immaterial source that you can move around within your range and attach to objects. Did you want something else?))
A bit hard to defend yourself by standing still, unless you're playing dead.
John is nodding very enthusiastically:
"Yes. Information is good"
"Well, you my friends, have been lucky enough to be selected as participants to the Interuniversal Games for Special People, by one of us. And I have the honour of being the organizer of said games. Responsible for running them smoothly, upholding the rules, things like that."
"The concept of the games is very easy. A group of players (that's you) gets a challenge, selected by us. Said challenge may be anything. It might require you to work together or fight each other, to kill people or to help people. It might take place in a city familiar to you or worlds where the natural laws you're familiar with do not apply."
"If you do well and you are entertaining enough, you get rewarded. Fail and... well, you get to try your luck on another challenge, if the one that chose you is kind enough to give you a second chance. Succeed enough times and you get to go home. Simple, right?"
"On missions, you usually get an interface, a little meta-object that provides you with information and allows you to communicate with each other and identify each other as players, although that may change on certain challenges."
"As for this challenge, you'll receive your briefing on site so there's no need for me to tell you much, but basically you just have to search a house and kill a guy (or try to capture him alive if you want a greater challenge). That's more or less it."
"Any questions?"
Final Round
I need that acidic spit and I need it now. Evolve it. See if there is any way to squeeze through the stalls into the elevator. If so, get through and go to the top floor. If not, startle my foe by flinging myself directly at him but leaping over him at they last second and exit the building via the storefront Windows or doors.
Well, you could become a rat or something and crawl under it, but I assume you don't want that.
You try to get to the elevator, but you just can't jump or climb over the obstacles in your way. Too bad you have no wings.
Well, guess it's time to charge him.
While all this happens, you manage to form a gland filled with an acidic substance on your neck. It should hopefully allow you to launch acid at high speeds out of your mouth.
"No more escaping, craven."
If Rune manages to find a way to the stairwell/elevator - run as fast as I can to him and pull him while grabbing him with my other hand.
If he eludes me and gets into the stairwell/elevator - destroy it with the blingcannon.
If he doesn't find his escape route and tries to run at me - put him in stasis and then slash away.
Rune runs towards Saevus. Saevus merely prepares his golden arm and points it towards him. Rune attempts to jump over him at the last second, just as the runes on Saevus' golden arm light up. Unfortunately, jumping over a
~3 metre tall suit of armour is not very easy, especially when you have no wings. It would had probably been easier to try and dive between his legs. As it is, he's going to collide with Saevus.
Or at least he would have, had he not suddenly stopped mid air like he collided with a wall. Not half a second later, as if that was not enough, Saevus slaps him with the flat of his blade right at the neck, throwing him to the floor.
You maintained the wall a few moments too long and ended up tiring yourself a bit, but not enough to impair your capacity to function. Not yet, anyway.
Did I think to lock the door behind me, or did it lock itself? That sliver of time may make a difference, since I rather think him punching it down is a non-issue.
The guy broke through a wall without breaking a sweat. I really don't think a cheap locked door will make a difference.
Anyway, those are doors with a card reader. Need the card to open them from the outside. And with the power out, even if he somehow had the card for this room, the door would not open anyway because the electronics have no power. You just "cheated" and bypassed the electronics entirely, forcing the mechanism to unlock as if it was opened from the inside of the room, since that part is purely mechanical.
So it's as if the door is locked.
I guess it won't make any real difference; let's go ahead and get an action up.
Time to go, methinks. Get the spear out a couple feet long (Enlarge) and Unsafe it to get the point; it should go straight through any mortal glass.
Once broken, prepare to exit as soon as that door opens. HOPEFULLY between the existing wings and any thrust provided by the engines, I should be able to at least not fall quickly. If not, it should buy time until it's flight capable.
If I get stable, start circling the building. If I don't, do my best to land safely. Also, check fuel supply.
((Hehe. "mortal glass" I imagine some sort of god of glass, ruling over all of glassdom.))
You poke the glass a few time, breaking off enough of it to make a nice safe hole. As you do so, you hear a loud crash outside, followed by the sound of falling rubble and the entire building trembling. You turn around to face the door and walk backwards to the edge of the window as the engine on your back starts spinning up, getting ready to jump outside. Your wings create an impressive shadow on the wall, making it look like the shadow of some sort of giant gargoyle, with its wings still being assembled. The tiny actuators and thin wire-like parts of your wings that allow them to move change their shape keep coming, followed by a thin semi-transparent black cover. Why does your ability have to make everything complicated?
The sound of falling rubble continues, some of them hitting the door of your room and cracks start appearing on its floor. Your helmet shows you that there's something wrong with the walls out there. First the wall in the opposite side from your room appears in red wireframe, followed by the ceiling and the floor of the hallway, followed by the floor of the hallway on the floor below, accompanied by another loud thud. The red is spreading.
Well, let's take some wall and throw it at the door, as hard as I can throw.
You smash a nearby wall with enough force to cause the entire building to shudder. The wall explodes outwards, the rubble and pieces of rebar launched by your strike destroying the room on the other side like the shrapnel of a giant grenade, some of them going fast enough to get embedded in the wall on the other side of the room.
And the destruction does not stop there. Pieces of debris keep falling from the ceiling, burdening the already cracked floor. You attempt to move away quickly but that only makes things worse, causing the floor to collapse and you to fall on the floor below. Thankfully, the floor below you holds (for now. It's cracked and there's more debris coming from above.) and you manage to slowly get up and move away from it.
Well, look on the bright side. Once you demolish the building, you'll probably have many giant pieces of wall.
Campaign
You could theoretically summon a big wagon and some ice. Whether or not that's a good idea is another story.
ALAN CONSIDERS THESE POSSIBILITIES NOT CONCERNING
Summon a giant wagon filled with ice cubes to keep the food in!
At nonlethal velocity.
Oh dear. Well, uh, let's see...
Luckily for you and the rest of the team, you rolled a 2 and not something worse like a -1.
Agreed, resting.
Nikolai asks Ike
"What happened when we were dead? Looks like you got in a fight or ten.
(Nik's gonna make sure his power still works after being revived by tsaring a bottlecap a few times. He's also gonna spend some time practicing with his weapons. But mostly relaxing and standing guard, nothing too important.)
Yep, power works.
You stand guard outside of the little tunnel while the others rest (or do whatever else they want), occasionally standing up to stretch your legs, make a few practice swings with your sword and use your sling to try and hit a piece of rubble. You keep imagining the piece of rubble you're aiming for is Alan for some reason.
You stay there for some time (two hours? Three? Hard to tell, although it's about midday. Still too early to leave.), standing close to the tunnel to shield your head from the sun, when you hear something in the silence. It sounds like something slowly walking somewhere above, coming from the centre of the city.
TiruinYou are looking at the sky. Clear blue sky, so clear and cloudless it feels like there's nothing around you, like you're flying through a blue void. But you're not. You can feel it. Your legs resting on the soft ground, on a bed of weeds and dirt, your head and back slightly elevated, touching something very cold. But there's also warmth, the sun giving your face a pleasant warmth with its beams. And the feeling of your chest moving, your heartbeat in your ears, the sound of wind and birds and...
You close your eyes and the world, the feelings, it all disappears. All that's left is the sight, a grey sight that never leaves, never grows dark. Everything is grey, a grey gradient surrounding you that never goes away, always the same, the differences so small one who saw it for the first time would had trouble noticing them. But you notice it. The light, your enemy, it's always there, at the edge of your sight, coming closer and...
You open your eyes again and the world returns. It's better this way. Resting here on this plain, you feel content. Yes, there is trouble. There are problems. There is worry and running. But for now, you can forget that. You can enjoy this while you can. Being with a friend. Seeing the world. Being calm. Resting. Being happy.
Your body moves. It feels alien, as if you're not the one controlling it, merely watching. You sigh and then open your mouth to take a deep breath-
And wake up.
You are naked, lying on your back, with your head and back on something cold and hard. Feels like stone. It is dark and quiet, except for some distant sound, maybe wind. You open your eyes and try to get up so you can look-
"Theri!"With a bark, two arms are wrapped around you and a tongue starts licking your nose.
<My friend! My friend is here!> he repeats a couple of times, along with whines and barks.
After a while, River stops licking you and just stands there with his arms resting on your shoulders, looking at you more calmly.
"I missed you."Despite him being a bit more calm, he is still panting and you can still see and hear his tail moving.
You are sitting on a stone table, inside a dark room. The only light is coming through a hole over a fireplace, a beam of light coming through it and cutting through the darkness. The room looks like a storage room that's been converted into a kitchen of sorts. There's the unlit fireplace, cupboards, a few metal cooking implements, some chairs, some shelves and a few barrels. There's a single doorway leading out of the room into a slightly brighter room.
OOCKetchup keeps just fine on the shelf, actually. You don't have to refrigerate it.
Are you sure? Because the one I have says "store in fridge after the seal has been removed" in the label. On the other hand, I've never tried to leave it out of the fridge and I've seen restaurants leave ketchup out in the open unrefrigerated... Maybe it's a time thing? Because the one in my fridge might stay there for months, but the ones in restaurants tend to be consumed within a week? I have no idea. Let's ask Google.
*googles*
Yeah,
turns out you're right. You can leave it out for about a month or more. The fridge is just to keep it fresh and tasty longer.
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