Holy shit. Thuun… Oh jeez.
- Turn 26: Sunlight -
You’ve found the village and someone is calling for help. What do you do…?Avoid crashing. Descend from atop the carriage, carefully to avoid issues from the cramps.
You shakily climb down from atop the carriage. Your muscles feel a little weak as the adrenaline from the rapid ride fades. "That was...fun. Definitely swift."
You massage your right forearm gently. the pain is fading, but you can’t quite control your arm just yet. It’s still a little stiff.
Thuun continues thinking about his latest vision...Life is obvious, but why Fire and Light? Fire...and...Light....His thoughts turn to his previous experience, wherein he was granted the aspect of a dragon, which included the domains he needs to see the spell come to fruition!
He focuses his mind on the needed elements, letting them flow into his blade for amplification, then passing the sword slowly along the length of where his legs should be, intent on drawing outward the aspect of that mighty creature inside him and binding it seamlessly to the rest of his flesh, inch by inch if need be.
Fire… Light… Hmm… You turn your mind inwards, mentally touching the raging flame of the dragon within your soul. “Hmm…” You wonder if the dragon aspect drew your mind towards those two magical elements. Maybe.
Well.
“I wonder…” You ponder your legs. They’re partially destroyed, but you’ve seen worse wounds healed! Time to try it out.
The matrix of the spell begins to form in your mind. A web of Life, spiralling green lines and whorls delicately pick out the shape of your body. It’s the simplest Life action in the world, simply sensing the Life within your own body.
Unbidden, sigils for Light bloom like flowers throughout the spell matrix, followed swiftly by traceries of fire. The light and fire combine to form sigils of heat and warmth; as one drifts past a green Life line, you see it warp into a sigil for growth, like the Sun’s light shining onto a plant.
Of course. The Sun. Solvarion, your patron God, represents Fire and Light bringing forth Life. It couldn’t be that simple, could it? You decide to give it a try.
(4+1=5) Green whorls form around your body, slowly and carefully. The magic just… dribbles out of you. You’re glowing now, with an emerald green haze.
You lift your sword and focus Light and Fire magic into the blade.
(Lt: 2+1+1+1=5, Fi: 5+1+1-1=6) (Holy hell) The bronze sword begins to glow, dully at first and then up to a blazing golden light. The light itself makes you feel so amazingly good! You pass the blade down the length of your body, letting the fiery light kindle the green haze.
Simmering tongues of flame spiral around you, delicately tracing your form out. You draw out the Dragon within you, letting it too catch alight and meld with your body.
Before your eyes, the cuts all down your arms seal and fade as the light touches them. Your aches and pains, left overs from years of magic, are burned away by the healing light. And then the light touches your stumps.
Flakes of charred skin fall away, revealing pink and healthy skin. Abrasions, cuts and tears seal up. Your stumps are now sealed up tightly, new and pink and healthy - and you have kneecaps again! Awesome. Weirdly, the dead parts are still dead - but before your eyes, Life begins to flow into them again. You see the green spell matrix begin to fill in those parts under the healing light.
You bid the light to leave your skin and enter your flesh; it does so, setting your legs alight with a dull red glow. You can feel the healing continuing very slowly within you. You won’t be able to cast any other magic for as long as this spell is active and drawing your power, but it
is healing your dead flesh - and eventually, your lower legs may just grow back!
Active state: Regenerative magic. No other magic can be cast for as long as this is active.
+1 experience to Fire magic! (The others didn’t naturally roll a five)
AWESOME! You’re now Level 1 in Fire magic! You can now generally control fire in a cone of about twenty feet as well as attempt to put out most fires with just your will.Baldur gingerly steps out of the carriage and looks around.
You creep out of the carriage and look around. The gate of the village stands in front of you, shut to trespass but not sturdily locked. Behind you, the forest is mostly quiet save for some rustling. Really unnerving rustling. Maybe you guys should get inside the village?
You turn to pick up the Life mage, since he’s entirely incapable of walking anywhere, to find him aglow in weird magics. "Need some help, Thuun?" you ask, secretly hoping he’ll say no.
He does. Strenuously. “Hmph, just asking,” you mutter. As you turn away, his sword glows fiercely. The light pierces deep into your brain and you blink and look awa-no, you can’t, your eyes are locked to the amazing spectacle. Your burned hand tingles and the pain fades away completely.
You see… wings? You can’t quite pick them out. You raise your bushy eyebrows in amazement as his cuts and legs begin to heal before your eye… and then, as the magic jumps from his sword into his red-glowing legs, a spark of it leaps off and slams into your dead and destroyed eye!
You feel it burning there, a spark of some weird-ass magic of Thuun’s. And you realise you can see it. is… Is your eye regenerating? No way.
You can use “I’m not right handed” again, since your hand is fully healed!
Ponder my foot, evaluate the best way to bind it. Make sure to just prepare, though. Better not get hasty.
"Well, this has been a productive day." You grouch and climb carefully from the carriage before leaning against a carriage wheel and surveying your foot. “Hmm…” You ponder your foot, wondering how best to bandage it.
Before you can think too hard on it, gleaming golden light spills from the carriage onto you. “What the hell?” You exclaim, jumping to your feet and backing away, failing to notice that the stab-wound on your foot has mysteriously closed up and vanished.
You can walk! Hallelujah!Get out of the carriage, intently look around for anything out of of place. Listen more closely to that voice
You climb out, just as Thuun begins glowing green. “Welp.” You make feet, getting the hell away from that carriage. Behind you it goes up in weird yellow light and you’re very, very glad you weren’t nearby when Thuun went nuclear or whatever the hell he did this time.
You stop. The village is quiet, except for... A voice.
(Kidzuku: Comprehension) Your copper bracelet heats up and begins to gently hum as you open your mind. (4+1) “Help!” someone shouts. They sound… muffled? “Oh Angels, somebody help!” The voice comes again, from deep inside the village. You reckon you could almost pick which building its from, once you get inside. Which you should soon, because...
(5+1) Something is rustling the forest around you. Lots of somethings. They sound humanoid. They smell… you crinkle your nose. The smell is damn nasty. Ugh. You know exactly where they are - and one is very close! There’s no ways in hell that they’re friendly. You slip your bow off your shoulder and focus for a second before snapping an arrow into the foliage directly over your head.
A khaki-skinned humanoid falls from the thick canopy, gasping for air around the arrow in its lung. “Uh. Guys?” you call, backing towards the village gates. “Maybe we shouldn’t be standing around like this…”
Lyu Brak (Harry Baldman)Profession: Priest
Status: Gettin’ healed
Inventory:Staff (Bronze-Capped)
Religious Necklace
Warm Priestly Robes and Pants
Warm Priestly Shoes
180 gold
10 Jimsonweed Fruit
Bits of Thuun’s legs
Jagged shard of bone
More bits of Thuun’s legs
Wounds/Status: You’re all good!
Abilities: [Boundlessly Cheerful] [The Good Priest] [Not that faithful] [Righteous Litany (1/6)]Baldur Bergfalk (USEC_OFFICER)Profession: Mercenary
Status: OH GODS THE MAGE IS GLOWING AGAIN
Inventory:Broken greatsword
Worn leather jerkin (and normal clothes)
Worn leather boots
Bear fur cloak300 gold
Wounds/Status: [Slashed left eye(3/3)][/color]
Abilities: [Skilled Bargainer] [Guileless] [I'm Not Right Handed] Lao Thuun (BFEL)Profession: Warrior Mage
Status: Oh good Lord.
Inventory: Blunted bronze sword
Leather armour and boots
Acolyte's SuncloakReligious Necklace
210 gold
Wounds/Status: [Healed stumpy legs]Abilities:[Enduring] [Dragon Aspect: 1] [Slow Cast] [Atoner] [Spellsword (4/3)][Regenerative Magic]Spells:[Life Spell: Wisp] Magical Experience:[Ea: 0] [Wi: 0] [Fi: 1] [Wa: 0] [Li: 2] [Fo: -1] [Lt: 0] [Sh: 0] Felice Nasib (Pancaek)Profession: Seaman
Status: Shooting nasties
Inventory: Repaired Shortbow
Seventeen Arrows
Razor-sharp DirkNautical Longcoat and Boots
313 gold
KidzukuWounds/Status: You're perfectly healthy!
Abilities: [Fearless] [Kidzuku: Arrowtime] [Not a Landlubber] [Trick Shot] [Kidzuku: Comprehension]Ekoka (GreatWyrmGold)Profession: Wanderer
Status: A bit shaky.
Inventory: Cracked shillelagh
Wanderer's Cloak
Sturdy Clothes and Boots
Length of Rope
Flint and Tinder
380 gold
Wounds/Status: [Cramped up right arm (2/2)]Abilities: [Survivalist] [Dual Focus] [Slow Cast] [Maladjusted to heat] [Guiding Spirit] Spells:[Wind Spell: Alacrity]Magical Experience:[Ea: 0] [Wi: 1] [Fi: 0] [Wa: 0] [Li: 0] [Fo: 0] [Lt: 0] [Sh: 0] 
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