Alright, I think it is done. I very probably missed something, a lot of stuff happened now.
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I'll try to use my earth manipulation non-ability again, this time to scale the keep's wall, being careful to keep on the outer side and get ready to get my ring back. Because it's mine. My ring. It's mine by right, I made it. Yeesss... Mine. My preciousss...
| You overcome all pain and weariness, and stand up. Suddenly feeling great vigour, you attempt to contact the earthen spirits, reaching out to them and letting their power flow through you.
| The earthen spirits send their power to you, but it is too strong for you to control! It bursts outwards and downwards, rapidly elevating the ground under you, forming a large rocky mountain! The sides of the mountain grind against the keep walls at first, but when the ground rises under the walls themselves, they crumble and the keep collapses! The third floor falls onto the first, and the flying debris spell doom for everyone nearby!
korora:{2} The floor crumbles from under korora's feet, leaving him falling all the way to the bottom!
| He hits the rubble like a sack of potatoes, but his armor prevents serious injury, except several broken ribs and a ringing head.
chaoticag:{5} As the walls and floor crumble, a support breaks and falls over chaoticag, providing enough shelter to shield him from most debris. He's still choking on dust though.
Gantolandon:{1} Barely stepping in the keep's direction, Gantolandon is hit straight in the face with an explosion of dust and debris, that throws him backwards.
| His armor saves him from death at its own expense, but his face is still broken, and his ribs, arms and legs have all seen better days.
Kashyyk:{1} Already covered by rocks, and damaged, Kashyyk could do nothing against a broken support landing on top of him.
| But the rocks played a good role as well, dampening the impact somewhat, and Kashyyk's condition was only mildly worsened.
Rooster:{1} No heavy metal can STOP THE ROCK! The one hurtling toward Rooster is quite big and heavy. Completely dazzled by the noise and flying dust, he could not move away in time.
| THUMP. Rooster screams in pain as the boulder lands onto him, tearing off his left ear, battering his head, breaking his left arm and crushing his legs and lower body.
| His wounds start bleeding heavily. Severe pain overcomes him, and he passes out.
LASD:{5} Suddenly LASD's reflexes skyrocket. As all the rock around him crumbles, he uses his Evil Shield as a sled, and slides, as if in slow-motion, down a breaking column, then bounces off a crumbling wall, tumbles, and lands outside the danger zone, unharmed.
Jay Kayell:{2} Like a titan against the onslaught of a raging hurricane, Jay Kayell assumes a defensive stance and tries to weather the rain of debris.
| The wooden armor pieces are quickly shattered by the beating rocks, leaving some areas exposed to hits, and JK's legs, arms, and torso are all heavily battered. Just when JK thought it was over, one of the supports decides to fall in his direction!
| It takes him by surprise, and lands straight on him!
| JK barely manages to cover his head with his armored hand, and avoids lethal damage, but his left arm is broken in two places, and his head is battered. Such an amount of damage will take a while to heal even with his abilities.
Civilians:{4} Miraculosly, most of the civilians survive, thanks to the guards, but almost a quarter of them are crushed by the rubble.
Guards:{6} The guards attempt to save all they can as soon as they realise the danger, and manage to force most of the civilians out of the keep, but some were overzealous in their attempts, and died along with those who didn't get out in time.
First Keeper:{6} When the keep started crumbling, the axe-wielding Keeper noticed the rocky mountain arising just outside, and jumped out onto it! It proved to be
almost smart, for he did not fall along with the rest, but he was forced to slide down a very jagged mountain,
| though he did not receive any lasting damage from it.
Second Keeper:{2} The hammerdwarf just tried to get a swing at korora when the keep toppled, and he fell! His landing was bad,
| he hit a falling support mid-drop, which broke his legs, and he broke an arm when he landed into the rubble near Jay Kayell.
Third Keeper:{2} The spear-wielder could not do anything. He watched LASD slide away on his shield as he fell to his doom.
| His armor protected him from too severe harm, however, but he still got knocked unconscious, and broke his left arm and left leg.
Fourth Keeper:{4} More by instinct than anything else, the marksdwarf Keeper jumped into the nearby remains of a clothing workshop, and even managed to take the relic container with him! The soft cloth rolls added to his armor's protection and let him survive the fall with only bruises and a sprained ankle.
Final Keeper:{4} The leader dwarf was together with the guards who led the citizens out of the keep, and managed to survive the ordeal unscathed.
You yourself stand above this destruction on the tiny plateau on top of the new mountain peak you have just summoned into existence.
I go to the keep to heal chaoticag and korora.
| You are too shocked by the sudden destruction of the keep to maintain your force bubble, and fall down. In desperation you fling the elven leader's tunic at the nearby tree, and actually manage to screech to a halt mere inches above the ground. Your hands are in pain now, and the cloth tunic is badly torn up now, almost in loose shreds.
I go inside and start butchering any dwarf standing my way. Especially the keymasters.
| You fall unconscious.
I'll change my action from making the dwarves to walk to weapons to them walking away from me.
| The leader dwarf sees you and runs toward you with several guards!
I'll kill the keepers in a gruesome manner, along with any other attackers.
| Overcoming the pain in the chest and limbs, you stand up, and walk through the rubble, trying to find someone. Suddenly you notice a large mountain-like… thing, standing erect next to the destroyed keep. A dwarf clad in heavy armor slides down its side, and you quickly recognize the Axe-wielding Keeper. Without hesitation, you leap at him!
| The dwarf barely manages to turn around as the Ashcraver falls on his head!
| Easily, as if through butter, the immeasurably sharp edge of the sword slices through metal, flesh, and bone with equal ease, finally stopping in the ground between the dwarf's feet. Completely astonished by this turn of events, the dwarf's body takes some time to realise it is dead, and then slowly falls into two parts.
"Boksi, if you want your ring back I'll give it to you, I never intended too keep it without your permission anyways.
I enter the keep and check the dwarves' reactions, if they attack I retaliate with extreme violence."
| You attempt to consciously control your power, and succeed, rebuilding your broken arm as a top priority. Now a little dizzy from the aftereffects, you walk towards the group of dwarves and humans near the exit of the keep.
| The civilians back away or flee into the darkness, while the guards position themselves between you and them, trembling with fear, but with resolve to protect clearly visible in their eyes.
i think i'll go to the tavern, to see what elica is doing and to find the things that will get us out of here.
| Let's give it another try. POWER OVERDRIVE GO!!! You blast off again, in hopes of getting it right this time. Unfortunately, the keep crumbles as you are nearing it, and you are so shocked you forget to stop and fly straight into the falling debris!
| You manage to stop before you hit a column, but you are still battered and bruised by several stones that fell onto you.
If I get healed, then I run to the Key. If not I heal myself.
| You're too distracted by the thick dust that tries to stop your breathing to concentrate enough to use TK healing effectively, but you manage to close some of your wounds, lowering your bleeding.
Using my mind, (with a mix of TK) I Take all the bits of rock that are not being used to fill up the hole to fix the gap I made in the keep.
| From the sounds of destruction above you, and the increased weight on your body, you surmise the keep has been completely destroyed. Therefore you do not waste effort on trying to rebuild, instead you emit a powerful blast of TK force, throwing all the debris that were on top of you upwards and in all directions!
| Some bits land dangerously close to you, but neither you nor anyone else suffer any additional harm.
I improve my heavy metal
| Your inner self is in a deep shock right now, and cannot even hope to try and wake the body up.
| Nevertheless, you can feel your body reshape itself.
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NPC Actions:
Elica is a swordself. Recently hired by Frelock. He's armed with a wooden longsword, and dressed in (somewhat pierced) green-grey close-fitting clothing with scarce leaf-shaped decoration. Is badly burned, but otherwise alright, standing in the completely destroyed tavern.
While it would be nice to have Sat-Cam's and see everything, you don't know what Elica is doing.
This is the ballista operator dwarf who was resurrected by Frelock. He practically LOVES Frelock. Has brown hair and wears clothes of indiscernable blackish leather.
Amidst all the turmoil, everyone lost sight of him.
The guards stay away from JK and near to the civilians.
First Keeper is dead.
Second Keeper:{4} Being in poor shape, the dwarf tries to bind and bandage his broken legs. After a while spent struggling with just one working arm, he manages to put adequate bandages on his wounds, but he still can't get up.
Third Keeper:{3-2=2(failguard)} The speardwarf remains unconscious.
Fourth Keeper:{5} Standing up from the rubble and seeing JK walk toward the group of civilians, the dwarf picks up his crossbow without hesitation, loads it quickly, and fires a bolt at him!
| JK doesn't even turn around, as his armor absorbs the bolt and adds it to its arsenal.
Final Keeper:{3} The leader dwarf stops in hesitation, thinks for a moment, and decides to raid Jay Kayell with all the force at his disposal. His platoon of guards turns back along with him.
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Status after turn:
Boksi: Standing on a tiny flat plateau atop his mini-mountain.
Wearing a rather singed reddish-black jacket of Karl Moebius leather, underwear, and slightly torn jean shorts.
Minor scars and numerous cuts all over the body.
Abilities:
Basic TK Manipulation.
Basic TK Healing.
Big Bully. Special status:
Carbon Flesh Interweave.
Can only speak goblin.
Activated Visual Omnisensor.
andrea: Standing upright amidst the ruined keep.
Wearing underwear and
fairly comfortable greyish trousers. Also wearing a
armor set: -Iron splint-mail-, a shirt of leather, Bronze plated greaves,
<<Iron high boots>>. Wields a +Steel maul+.
Head bruised slightly, large bruises on both upper arms.
Abilities:
Shrapnel Self.
Basic TK Healing.
Empowered by Lightning (currently Depleted, -1 agi, -2 spd, -1 lightning use, 2 turns to next level).
korora: Standing upright amid the rubble of the keep.
Wearing underwear, and makeshift bra-scarf clothing. Also wearing the
armor set:
<<+Iron breastplate+>>, a soft leather shirt, an Iron helmet, some hard leather greaves and -Aluminum high boots-. Owns an Iron handaxe and a -Black bronze warhammer-, both (probably) on the third floor of the keep for now. Wields
The Ashcraver. Holding two large nuggets of gold (2kg), and one particularly large sapphire (0.5kg).
Bolt stuck in breastplate, pierced upper body.
Several ribs broken. Dazed. Minor bleeding.
Abilities:
Mighty.
Extremely Agile.
Extended TK Healing.
"A massive, massive, MASSIVE sword. It is three meters long, 1'3'' (~40cm) wide, and dazzingly bright. Its fine steel has been polished to reflect light like a mirror. Its one edge is curved, jagged at the hilt, the other is straight and so sharp it could probably slice adamantine blocks like salami. Down the center of the sword, which is at least 2'' thick, runs a hollow slit 3'' wide, in which yeat another, smaller and straighter sword is concealed. The entire surface of both swords, except of course the sharp cutting edges, is finely engraved with uncountable images, among which the launching of the Challenger, world war II, a nuclear explosion, a trainwreck, and a rotary excavator. The hilt itself (being at the same time the hilt of the smaller sword) is decorated with gold and emeralds you can only assume you've taken from someone, arranged in beautiful patterns, and the handle is woven with three lines - one is a scaly snake with two small rubies in the eyes, and two seem awfully like DNA strands. You get a feeling you could decipher the human genome if you looked closely enough. The guard of the hilt is exquisitely detailed as well, but right down the senter of it, spanning the breadth of the sword, is a solid rectangular golden plate, with the single word: ""ASHCRAVER"" deeply embossed onto it. The entire thing is so immeasurably brilliant, you almost don't want to touch it fearing it'll stick to your hand and corrupt you like some magic ring. Overcoming this fear, you pick it up. Despite its size, it is relatively lightweight, relatively, of course, to anything else so large and made of steel.
The second form is a smaller (comparatively) blade, that together with the folding hilt guard looks like an overgrown sai. It's also exquisitely detailed, but lighter. (+1 to damage, -1 to agility).
The Ashcraver seems to accumulate the energy released by the deaths it causes. The process is admittedly rather slow, but has good uses."
Down under a fallen column in the destroyed keep.
Wearing the
armor set: +Steel Chestplate+, -Copper chainmail-, Aluminum cap, hard leather leggings and
<<Copper plated boots>>. Wielding a wooden broadsword with sharp edges of a shimmering material.
Arms and upper body pierced and torn,
Lower body badly gashed. Bleeding.
Abilities:
Basic TK Healing.
Extended TK Bolt.
TK Ripper Slash.
Gantolandon: Down on the ground near the keep.
Wearing underwear, a thin silky sweater, and
a set of armor: A <<*Bone full plate armor*>>, +Bone gauntlets+, +Bone high boots+, and +Bone full helm+. Holding a paperclip and a nice pair of white socks. Wielding a +Bone Axe+.
Face heavily battered, eyes swollen (-2 sight), jaw cracked.
All body and limbs battered. Much of the skin is burned and causes pain. Right hand seriously burned. Hands pierced by numerous splinters. Nasty scratch along the head. Unconscious.
Abilities:
Basic TK Healing(!). Special status:
Activated Selective Translator.
Frelock: Standing upright somewhere in the field.
Wearing underwear, a
somewhat dirty and badly slashed up <<*Giant cave spider silk robe*>>, and +hippo leather sandals+. Wielding a Steel Quarterstaff and a -Small Iron throwing knife- as a backup weapon. Holding a wad of shredded shimmering cloth, 12 arrows, pieces of wood plate armor with shimmering runes, and a shimmering shortbow.
Some nasty cuts, and one pierced wound on the body. Hands in pain. Minor bleeding.
Abilities:
Slightly improved strength.
Meagerly improved agility.
Can be cautious while calm.
Improved TK Healing III.
Stone Frank's Revivification.
Basic TK Field. Special status:
Activated Selective Translator.
Kashyyk: Stainding upright amidst the rubble of the keep.
Naked. Wielding an Iron Battleaxe.
Flesh turned into iron, broken arrows in abdomen, right leg, and left shoulder. Head, upper body, and both arms Damaged.
Abilities:
Enrage Other. Enrage Self.
Basic TK Healing(!). Special status:
Activated Selective Translator (2).
Steel scales. Extra:
Rollerblades in the forearms. Rooster: Down on the ground, pinned by a boulder near the keep.
Wearing underwear (probably), a
set of armor consisting of (somewhat torn and burned) hard black studded leather armor and greaves, iron plated high boots, and (also burned) fur-quilted iron shoulderpads with horns. Wields a +Steel Guitar-Battleaxe+.
Well-shaved with fire, face singed slightly.
Left upper arm broken.
Both legs broken. Minor to light burns all over the body. Six fingers on left hand.
Can perform heavy metal. Odd regeneration power.
LASD: Standing upright right outside the remains of the keep.
Wearing underwear, and a
white/pink/yellow suit and top hat made of underwear. Also wearing the
armor set:
<<+Iron chain Cuirass+>>, -Iron chain gloves-, Iron chain greaves, and Iron low boots. Wielding a
*Evil Aluminum tower shield* Several scars along the torso. Lightly bruised.
Abilities:
Power of Peace.
Power of Persuasion (suit bonus does not apply).Special status:
Peacekeeper.
Jay Kayell: Standing upright near the keep.
Wearing purple stretchy shorts. Useless shreds of underwear on right arm. Holding a ring. Wielding a +Iron flanged mace+. The armor is armed with a collection of axes and swords (including one shimmering elven blade and one wooden with shimmering edges), and its steel clawed fists as well. The armor has 5 unspent arrows.
Upper and lower body, and legs, all heavily battered. Dizzy. (-1 con, conc).
Abilities:
Novice Wrestler.
Basic TK Healing.
Blood of the Blood God.
Blood Rage. Special status: Wearing
Composite Reinforced Corpse-steel power armor.
A somewhat thick ring of steel, intricately engraved, with a large many-edged purple gem set into it.
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Environment:
Tavern: Was a two-floor building. Now it's a mangled ruin, thoroughly blasted apart. The building used to contain your enter/exit point, but how to use it is completely up to you now.
Human/Dwarven Capital: Large city on the outskirts of hell knows where. Holds a modest amount of homes, from hovels to two-floor apartment buildings, a set of shops, a (destroyed)temple, and a (demolished)keep.
Food store: Square one-floor building with long tables laden with salted and fried meats of all kinds. There's a single wide table at the far end, with a chest on top of it. There's a mighty fine hole broken through the ceiling.
Cloth store: Rolls of cloth and various cloth, silk, and leather articles of clothing are on the many shelves inside this building. There's a single wide table at the far end, with a chest on top of it. The entire building is barely standing, most of its roof is collapsed. There's a pile of elf-paste near the building, and some elven corpses.
Armor store: Everywhere in the shop various pieces of armor are thrown about, shields of different sizes litter the floor, and arrayed under the now-broken shelves and tables are enough various boots to outfit a battalion. At the far end of the building, there is a single wide table. The heavy chest is on the floor, broken, a large supplement of coins from it now covers the floor.
The Keep: Was once a tall, proud building. Now a mighty large pile of rubble. There is one (covered) pit in the center of the first floor, with something glowing below.
The Temple: Tall and proud, beautiful building of white marble, a solid first floor surrounded by columns is supporting several ring-shaped floors held up by beautiful marble supports. A deep pool of shiny, clear water can be seen inside the building. Well, it probably was like that. The entire thing has recently tried to rise up in mighty wrath as a gigantic statue of a carp, but failed miserably and broke to pieces. Afterwards, the overpowered Rooster single-handedly sent the whole place into oblivion along with the elves, who now cannot be seen, heard, or even smelled by anyone other than themselves.
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Background: [3] You can positively see the flickering light shift around, as if something is approaching. The light in the west has stopped growing. You can feel slight tremors, and loud rumbling from the center of the keep.
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