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Author Topic: WIZARDS!: ZAP  (Read 80989 times)

Dermonster

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Re: WIZARDS!: ZAP
« Reply #540 on: March 11, 2017, 01:18:10 pm »

"Marcus is now Annoyed. COME OUT AND FACE ME YOU DEVIL!"

"Oh god damnit where's my gun wherewhere-"

Marcus Insults the shadow, trying to provoke a reaction.

Alanna is on overwatch again.

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Re: WIZARDS!: ZAP
« Reply #541 on: March 11, 2017, 02:10:58 pm »

Fleyshius blearily stumbles out of the tent, looking around before spotting the shadow. Angrily he pulls his pistol out and fires a shot at it

Bah, to hell with all of this, men, stand to and prepare to see him off.

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Re: WIZARDS!: ZAP
« Reply #542 on: March 11, 2017, 04:27:58 pm »

Fire if it approaches or if anyone else fires.

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Re: WIZARDS!: ZAP
« Reply #543 on: March 11, 2017, 09:05:44 pm »

Sigh will fire a shot off too, after Fleyshius fires.  He'll try and stand bravely next to Fleyshius too, or at least the closest imitation of standing bravely that he's capable of.

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Re: WIZARDS!: ZAP
« Reply #544 on: March 13, 2017, 05:49:47 pm »

"Marcus is now Annoyed. COME OUT AND FACE ME YOU DEVIL!"

"Oh god damnit where's my gun wherewhere-"

Marcus Insults the shadow, trying to provoke a reaction.

Alanna is on overwatch again.


Fire if it approaches or if anyone else fires.

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Sigh will fire a shot off too, after Fleyshius fires.  He'll try and stand bravely next to Fleyshius too, or at least the closest imitation of standing bravely that he's capable of.

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Fleyshius blearily stumbles out of the tent, looking around before spotting the shadow. Angrily he pulls his pistol out and fires a shot at it

Bah, to hell with all of this, men, stand to and prepare to see him off.

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Flesyhius is the first to fire, rising from sleep and taking only as long as he needs to get a rough aim before firing a shot off at the distant figure. The shadow seems to blink out of existence a moment later, like the reflection in a pond suddenly dispersing into nothing when a stone is dropped into the water. For a moment, everyone stands still, watching the horizon to see what happens next. The only sound is their rapid breath and the crackle of relit torches.

"I guess..." Alanna starts, but she's interrupted by Bill suddenly spinning around in terror. His senses caught what theirs could not.  Behind them, no more than an arm's length away, is a small child. A little boy, though its somewhat hard to tell. His hair is long, past his shoulders, brown and unkempt. He's wearing a baggy sackcloth shirt that might as well be a dress on him,  and his skin is alabaster pale. He has a small, fragile, doll-like face with wide, dark eyes. He's staring up, right back at everyone. His arms are limp at his side and he makes not a single noise or movement. Does not even blink.

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Re: WIZARDS!: ZAP
« Reply #545 on: March 14, 2017, 12:40:20 am »

Scream and hide behind Fleyshius, while trying to watch everywhere that isn't at the child at once.

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Re: WIZARDS!: ZAP
« Reply #546 on: March 14, 2017, 07:14:25 am »

Marcus nudges Alanna, nodding toward the child. Alanna shoots him a bewildered look, but Marcus continues to nod in the apparitions direction.

"??!?"

"Is dead child, like mission said. Marcus thinks light interrogation is needed."

"?!?!?"

Taking a deep breath, Alanna attempts a smile.

"Hello, uh, little guy? Who might you be?"
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"The bulk of [Derm]'s atrocities seem to stem from him doing things that [Magic] doesn't actually do." - TvTropes
"Dammit Derm!" - You, if I'm doing it right.
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Re: WIZARDS!: ZAP
« Reply #547 on: March 14, 2017, 11:04:51 am »

Try to recall what was going on with the kids.  Did they come back okay?  Did they come back wrong?

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Re: WIZARDS!: ZAP
« Reply #548 on: March 14, 2017, 11:11:45 am »


Use senses to keep an eye out for any more threats showing up. Stay a safe distance away from the child and watch it. If it turns into a threat, cut it down alongside my summons.

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Re: WIZARDS!: ZAP
« Reply #549 on: March 15, 2017, 10:24:11 am »

fleyshius stares at the child in silence. Before backing away slowly and saying.

By God, how did he get here

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Re: WIZARDS!: ZAP
« Reply #550 on: March 15, 2017, 08:32:49 pm »


fleyshius stares at the child in silence. Before backing away slowly and saying.

By God, how did he get here

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Scream and hide behind Fleyshius, while trying to watch everywhere that isn't at the child at once.

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You scream in a very high pitched and breathy way and immediately hide behind Fleyshius, clinging to his back and shrinking down to then cling to the back of his legs. Your head whips around in all directions in a way that would make a priest very nervous, your eyes bugged out and scanning the horizon, the sky, the ground and everything in between. You make whining noises and kick your feet and try to pull Fleyshius away from the scary child thing. He seems to see the wisdom in that and you both slowly scoot away until you manage to the top of a dune. You immediately grab him and pull him down, both of you roll down the hill and end up in a pile at the bottom, awkwardly entangled but safe.

Try to recall what was going on with the kids.  Did they come back okay?  Did they come back wrong?

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The letter said only that the dead children had been reappearing, it said nothing about how or in what form. But it stands to reason that if they simply miraculously reappeared in normal and unchanged form, people probably wouldn't be sending you to investigate.


Use senses to keep an eye out for any more threats showing up. Stay a safe distance away from the child and watch it. If it turns into a threat, cut it down alongside my summons.

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You watch the child while keeping the rest of the world around you observed via your summons. Your summons are violently on edge; it feels like someone has your head in their hands and is squeezing as hard as they can. The malevolent pressure is crushing but it has no direction, it's all around you, grinding at your skin, cutting into you like an electric knife. You squint at the child and notice that it is actually moving. Its head is vibrating side to side, very slightly. And inhumanly quickly.

Marcus nudges Alanna, nodding toward the child. Alanna shoots him a bewildered look, but Marcus continues to nod in the apparitions direction.

"??!?"

"Is dead child, like mission said. Marcus thinks light interrogation is needed."

"?!?!?"

Taking a deep breath, Alanna attempts a smile.

"Hello, uh, little guy? Who might you be?"
The child turns to look at you. It doesn't turn its head, its entire body and head turn towards you without moving a muscle. As though it was a solid marble statue turning on its axis. It stares. You feel your face grow warm, like you're standing with your head next to an open oven. You can feel the child's stare on you. You can physically feel it. Like the point of a knife placed gently on your forehead.



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Re: WIZARDS!: ZAP
« Reply #551 on: March 15, 2017, 09:06:39 pm »

"Hooookay! Lets! Not do that? Maybe?" Alanna says, slightly panicking. "Uh! We are here to, uh, find out what happened to you! And quite possibly find out if it was caused by someone, and then we would give them a very stern talking to! At swordpoint, even. Does that sound okay? Please don't burn me."



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« Last Edit: March 15, 2017, 09:24:37 pm by Dermonster »
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Re: WIZARDS!: ZAP
« Reply #552 on: March 15, 2017, 09:22:58 pm »

Sigh visibly relaxes a little, releasing a little mini-sigh of relief before helping Fleyshius to his feet.  "They'll kill it, they always do.  Maybe one will die, that happens sometimes.  Maybe they'll all die, that happened once too.  Much rarer, normally everything else dies.  Still have to watch for the mother, it brought the cub, it'll come back for it, for us, they'll kill the cub but her I don't know..."

Stay crouched and watchful, eternally next to Fleyshius.  If any new children pop up, run away with him, and if other monsters appear, shoot them with my rifle.

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((Derm, do you think you could mark whether Alanna or Marcus is speaking?  I'm pretty sure it's just Alanna in that post, but it's kinda ambiguous.))

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Re: WIZARDS!: ZAP
« Reply #553 on: March 16, 2017, 01:28:14 am »

"I think we may need a blindfold"

See if I can make one.

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Re: WIZARDS!: ZAP
« Reply #554 on: March 16, 2017, 07:02:57 pm »

Uh, of course Sigh, yeah,  maybe they''ll not kill this one though? That would be nice

Fleyshius will crawl back to the top of the sand dune and peek over the edge, if the child turns into a horrible monster or something, shoot it. If it doesn't then just watch.

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