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[Amperzand]

{One wonders how Spark, who is further away and not as well-prepared, can stop him from activating the lift.}

[TheBiggerFish]

{One wonders how Spark, who is further away and not as well-prepared, can stop him from activating the lift.}

((Networking.  This is a technomancy system right?  Pretty sure it is, I built it.  Spark can jam open the stop condition on the motor logic.))

[Amperzand]

[Discussion moved to OOC thread]

[Chevaleresse]

Hearing the necromancer run off, I round the corner and do my best to charge him, hoping to land a decisive strike with the pick before he can move further into the fortress.

[Dustan Hache]

having been attacked upon activating the lift, he would be knocked over, and struck with the pick, probably leaving him unable to do much combatwise aside from weakly try to siphon vitality from the dwarf yet again in a panic.

[TheBiggerFish]

The lift does nothing.  The dragonhawk, however, takes the opportunity to stab at the necromancer.

[Amperzand]

The Stranger is able to discern that the lift's motors have been locked by some sort of fortress-wide security alert. Blowing out the ceiling would break the cable, allowing the elevator to descend freely once the simple manual brakes were disengaged, and there is a staircase less than five meters away, the door to it, while locked, fairly easy to bypass.

A badly-aimed bolt of vitality-transferring arcanities sizzles out through the elevator door, missing the foreman, but striking the pestilential construct, which abruptly falls to the ground, power source drained. The Stranger feels a sudden rush of arcane energy.

{Edit; blowing out the ceiling doesn't just drop you, the elevator engages with the shaft walls to limit its speed.}

[TheBiggerFish]

((Aaaaamp...Drain Life != Drain Magic....))

[Amperzand]

{Drain Vitality, untargeted and poorly cast. It's up to the narrative what it does to anything technically alive or in possession of vital energy that it comes in contact with.}

[TheBiggerFish]

{Drain Vitality, untargeted and poorly cast. It's up to the narrative what it does to anything technically alive or in possession of vital energy that it comes in contact with.}

((The Narrative does not write the laws of magic.  If I cast Drain Vitality on a mana battery it won't drain the battery.  This is, in the end, the same scenario.  If it's poorly cast, it's more likely to fizzle than do anything anyway.  Either way, there's this thing called momentum you forgot.  Spark would keep going.  In stabby position.))

[Amperzand]

{Without blades, bitey position, no longer flapping to maintain momentum. By poorly-cast, I meant uncontrolled. Basically, uncontrolled spells do something fairly similar to what they were previously trying to do, but not usually in the way the caster wanted. The same occurred when you tried to make the Skalewyrm go to sleep. The spell ran off your intent, to make it stop trying to kill you, and did what it did.}

The construct glides a few more meters before bouncing along the ground, ending inches before the elevator door. At least it was not left trapped with a foe, who would surely have caused irreparable damage in the two-minute elevator ride.

[TheBiggerFish]

{Without blades, bitey position, no longer flapping to maintain momentum. By poorly-cast, I meant uncontrolled. Basically, uncontrolled spells do something fairly similar to what they were previously trying to do, but not usually in the way the caster wanted. The same occurred when you tried to make the Skalewyrm go to sleep. The spell ran off your intent, to make it stop trying to kill you, and did what it did.}

The construct glides a few more meters before bouncing along the ground, ending inches before the elevator door. At least it was not left trapped with a foe, who would surely have caused irreparable damage in the two-minute elevator ride.

((...How did he open the elevator door.  The door is not left open.  The buttons are turned off.  Was the elevator even...Yes it was if my pseudocode, but even so, there's nothing keeping the door open and it would have shut normally.
Oh, so he released magic without a clear spell structure.  Gotcha.
I keep saying, stabby position.  Gemstones can be sharp.  And the tail is pointy.  Corundum certainly is.))
Spark's tap to the mana battery starts recharging him, hopefully faster than the ambient thaumic field would.

[Dustan Hache]

*he would then channel the arcane energies to his leg, thinking it to be vitality he siphoned on reflex, though this would likely cause the flesh in his leg to animate on it's own and start growing "the Thing"  again.

[Amperzand]

{Nah. For one, it doesn't automatically go necro when you grab it, but for another, "The Thing" was a one-shot nasty thing, not a result of controlled necromantic stuffs. You could probably replicate it with some work, but it's not a frequent normal phenomenon.}

{Fish, I have to ask again, why would you care about preventing somebody from going down the cargo elevator? Why waste so much of your engineers' time putting advanced defenses around something that you have no reason to defend, when the surface faces danger at any time? The bottom part of the shaft is heavily defended, preventing anything from getting in, and anything already in the main fort has access to far more important assets than anything below.}

[Dustan Hache]

(I assumed that it was one of the side effects of some rather heavily cursed energy, combine with a large amount of flesh. that said, it's not exactly going to be a huge eldritch abomination this time, just a small, rather annoying one strapped to a person's leg. on the same note, wouldn't the siphoned energy/vitality have the curse extended to it to prevent tugs of war?)