Tiim[Manipulation: 18]
[Determination + Situational Modifier (-2): 12]
Tiim stretches ou her arms, reaching out to connect with more corpses. At a certain point she find the process accelerating beyond her control, and with no formal spellwork to fall back on, she is left powerless as her head fills with wailing and screeching. Her body feels far too heavy and cold, before leaving her completely.
Shalva[Strength + Weapon: Tail: 15]
There are quite a few advancing undead, so Shalva sets about tripping them and slowing them down. It actually proves quite hard for her to
avoid hurting the zombies, as the lamia is quite large and strong and the zombies don't protect themselves or even seem to register her as a threat.
In the end she may have wound up smashing some chests in or knocking off some arms, especially with the fragile skeletons. Still, the undead advance, as more of the horde is pulled towards the living human.
[Determination: 10]
Shalva feel something approaching her, but has no time to react before it makes impact, knocking her senses clear away from her.
Bird[Agility + Weapon: Bird: 9]
The bird circles a few times looking for a safe opening to attack before realizing that the snake isn't being attacked at all. Well, no point in fighting defensively if these guys aren't going to bother defending themselves.
It swoops down and beautifully puncture one zombie's brain, causing some rotten brain goo to dribble out. Though as the bird flies away, it notes that the corpse doesn't seem actually inconvenienced by this at all. It just keeps stumbling forwards.
[Determination: 13]
It can feel something icy-cold emanate from that girl and then fly right towards it, like a bad invisible spear. Well, the bird knows what to do when it's being attacked, and fights back with all its might, casting its own invisible claws to parry the attack.
The result kind of... melds together, and the bird can hear many humanlike voices wailing. It retaliates in some vague way, but is still pulled under.
Tom[Manipulation + Druidcraft: 15]
Tom reaches out to a nearby skeleton and attempts to siphon a bit of its vitality to himself. Make them weaker, more likely to fold. This is considered to be one of the nastier techniques used by druids, but it's certainly effective.
What happens, though, is a bit odder. What Tom draws off isn't lean, flowing vitality, but a viscous
chunk of something quite different. As soon as he pulls it away the skeleton collapses, and the glob of energy attracts itself into Tom's rippling vegetable chest.
It bolsters the vines, makes them stronger. But Tom doesn't feel
more alive. Rather more the opposite.
[Determination: 14]
A moment later, Tom feels something similar to that glob appraoching him, but this time more directed, with vile and offensive intent. Strands of it come bouncing in from every direction, from the whole horde, but Tom can still see that that girl is at the center of it.
He sees that there's no real oppurtunity to avoid the invisible attack, so he simply braces for the impact and takes it. His body quickly fades away from him, but he remains focused and strides into the darkness.
Henric[Determination + Situational Modifier (+2): 9]
That girl, Henric watches her... well, not really do anything. But rather he
feels her do something, something which feels terrible and momentous.
The undead in a circle around her stop in their tracks, completely arrested. And then more and more, in a ripple around her, even causing the other revenants to freeze when it reaches them.
Henric has a moment to consider if he had really moved a safe distance away before it hits him; a writhing, terrible scream which pulls him under into the soil.
Oh Boy EverybodyAs the darkness fades away, the revenants find themselves in a different place, and in various different states of being.
It's a clearing, or something resembling one. The ground is hard, cold glass which looks almost identical to a muddy ground, but feels completely different.
Around the edge of the area there's a solid wall of trees, or perhaps huge stone pillars in the shape of trees. There is no path through them, and they stretch into the sky too far to climb over.
As for the sky itself, it is a deep, dark blue, like the ugliest secret of the sea. It is also dominated by a massive, flaming moon.
Tiim is now a huge, pale queen. She is truly giant, bigger than any human could be, and is also emaciated, with her head resmbling a skull.
Shalva is a small, black snake. Some force draws her in towards the queen, threatening to subsume her into it.
Henric is a black rat, and likewise threatens to be swept up by Tiim.
Tom and the bird are much better off. The first takes the form of a powerful, if putrid living tree adorned with acidic fruit, while the other is a black-feathered dinosaur, standing on two huge muscular legs and with a huge jaw of sharp teeth which constantly leeches a deadly black gas.
Finally, the five revenants aren't alone here. A swarm of countless globs of black tar buzz together and conglomerate into a massive screaming black skull.
"MUST FEED US. WE ARE COLD, AND HUNGRY, AND ANGRY. HELP US! HELP US OR ELSE!"
Name: Tiim
Status: 
, giant undead queen
Inventory: A golden crown
Attributes: Determination: +0
Observation: +0
Influence: +1
Strength: -2
Agility: +0
Manipulation: +2
Skills: Ancient Fire Magic: +2
Ancient Language: +1
Ancient Purpose: Father: +2
Ancient Numerology: Curse of the Unending: +1
Further Reference: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=177648.msg8221589#msg8221589 Name: <Caw>. Goes by Moldbin. Or just Bird.
Status: , black-feathered dinosaur
Inventory: Nothing
Attributes: Determination: +1
Observation: +1
Influence: +0
Strength: +0
Agility: +1
Manipulation: +0
Skills: Semblance of Life: +1
Mind over Matter +1
Weapon: Bird: +1
Literate: +1
Curiosity: +1
Geography: +1
Animal Empathy +1
Mind Eater +1
Further Reference: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=177648.msg8221923#msg8221923 ((Oh boy I don't feel super confident that any of what happened in this turn was well-conveyed at all.))
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