Alright, turn is here. It's rather long, and various stuff has happened, so, please, don't post actions 'till you're sure there are no major mistakes (like a missing bonus/penalty). I suspect swarm rules should have been invoked somewhere...
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I attempt to enter into a super-healing state, where, surrounded by my TK bubble, I can instantly heal my companions the moment they get injured (say, add an extra roll after damage is taken to see if I heal them and a roll every turn to see if I heal existing damage).
| As the stasis field around you begins to dissipate and the creatures around you slowly start moving, you begin reciting your chant and attempt to call upon all the powers you have so far learned to enter a meditative healing trance. Unfortunately, the field's disappearance was rather rough, and you are thrown to the ground, your concentration is broken. You are flat on the ground, surrounded by a pack of ratmen.
"As soon as the wall became trasparent, andrea saw the demons and his anger started to rise, these creatures seeding only hate in his heart. Soon the only thing he wanted was to kill them, and his anger and hate increased more and more, and thus he spoke till the bubble released him:
Gods of the heavens, help me to fight your ancient enemies!
Sparks started coming from his body, his power increasing
Lightning and Thunder that helped me
Earth on which I walk
Air that I breathe
Water that endlessly flows from the mountains
Fire that burns inside me
GIVE ME THE POWER TO KILL THESE ENEMIES!
As he said these words andrea charged his powers and rose above the ground, all the space around him filled with sparks. His eyes suddenly go white and a voice is heard, so weak that it is barely understandable, but so loud that everyone can hear it
Demones, filii inferorum
semines interitus currite.
Ad noctem perpetuam terrae revolate
ubi semper eritis!
After these words are said, his eyes go red and he is ready to attack. (fixed)
many words, short action: i attack nearby enemyes, mainly flying ones."
| Despite your best efforts to concentrate and enspirit yourself with words and chants, the abrupt discharge of the stasis field still broke your concentration. You are standing amidst the army of darkness. Several copper golems, at least one spider, and a large amount of purplish demon rats are swarming around you.
Given my giant sword, I think I'm best off focusing on the latter, so I'll defend the others who are "amidst the ruins of the keep" with me, hopefully entering a martial trance.
| No matter how you tried to prepare to throw yourself onto your enemies, you were foiled by the same stasis field discharge. You are slightly confused but ready to fight. A winged demon is not too far away, as well as a few giant moles and troglodytes.
I rush to the tavern, cleaving every monster standing my way.
| You almost rip the bubble apart yourself as you charge out of it toward the enemies! You throw the socks at the two nearest golems as if they were tomahawks!
| The socks fly perfectly,
| knocking the heads off the golems! You run to the tavern, striking left and right with your axe,
| crushing skulls and chopping through necks of ratmen, but are suddenly confronted by a demon descending straight into your path! The demon breathes fire!
| In a marvellous display of agility, you jump over the cloud of flame that roasts nearby critters, and strike at the demon with your axe!
| He quickly evades your attack, but doing so clears a way for you! You rush past him and finally make it to the tavern. As you'd expect, it's much less occupied than the keep, but a few curious ratmen and batmen are still crawling around in its ruins.
I (drop the axe and) go to the tavern and kill everything that tries to stop me.
| As you drop out of your bubble, you waste no time. Throwing your axe into the meanest-looking spider (
|cutting two of its legs off), you scoop up both the dwarf and Elica, fan out your weapons, and charge through the ranks of monsters toward the tavern!
| You stomp down the demon rats and throw away ratmen, moles, and troglodytes alike, with barely a motion of your powerful arms! Many of them die, slashed and pierced by your arsenal. Even when another giant spider tries to block your path, you do not stop, instead firing a volley of arrows at it!
| The arrows strike into the monster's legs, breaking half of them and making the spider drop to the ground in front of you! Picking up speed, you run right over its body, and then leap from it, right over the rest of the critters,
| and land at the tavern, your live cargo still intact.
If the helmet is big enough for it to fit on me, I'll put it on. Regardless of whether it fits or not, I'll try to be all intimidating and try to get to JK, preferably using my earth manipulation non-ability.
| The helmet is actually a little larger than you'd like it to be, but it doesn't seem to fall off easily, so you keep it on your head. You focus and emanate a menacing aura to protect yourself from the monsters. As soon as the bubble lets you out into the swarm of demon rats in front of you, you call to your dormant earth manipulation powers and raise yourself above the monsters on a large pillar of rock! With a motion of your hand, you order a long row of pillars to rise between you and the tavern,
| and then quickly run along their tops to reach JK.
I will attempt to change my vision to visible light, or some other view that lets me see the demons and my friends and know which is which. If possible I also charge towards my friends to help protect them.
| The quirky control mechanism of the vision switcher finally succumbs to your continued efforts to switch to visible light, and you are able to look at your surroundings. Three copper golems stand nearby, intently looking at you. An idea appears in your head. When the bubble lets you out, you do nothing and just stand firmly, without moving. The golems continue staring at you. Then, as if recognizing you as one of them, move off towards other players. The other creatures also don't touch you.
I maintain the stasis bubble.
| Hastily remembering your actions that brought you here, you focus your thoughts and manage to prevent the stasis bubble around you from collapsing. Suddenly the world around you skips to several minutes into the future, and the bubble continues to dissolve.
I'll run like hell to the tavern with the key and the artifact. If possible I paralyze the GCS when I have arrived.
| You pump yourself up in preparation for the mad dash. Once the bubble releases you into normal timespace, your peace power blends with persuasion, and goes into overdrive, quickly immobilizing pairs of critters as they appear in your view, and giving them orders to jump away! You manage to get to the tavern without problem, and fix your eyes on a large spider and a nearby ratman after you approach JK.
treat it like getting along with this (if I haven't) and probable new bodies that might occur
| You're fairly well acquainted with the quirks of your body, but you're not sure if you can handle any more freakish mutations just as well.
| You feel rejuvenated. The spider near you feels hungry.
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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.
Barely managing to get his bearings on the changed situation, the elf quickly recognizes the best use for himself and leaps at the ratmen in the tavern cellar!
| The ratmen are busy feasting on the remnants of the various meats, and Elica crashes into the middle of them, slashing them with lightning-quick roundhouse strikes!
| Natural instincts allowed the ratmen to jump away, barely getting their noses scratched by the elf's sword.
First Keeper is dead. His key is taken.
Second Keeper is dead. His key is taken.
Third Keeper:{2} The dwarf is utterly confused and is just standing there.
Fourth Keeper is dead. His
armor is taken with the key.
Final Keeper is dead.
Marksdwarf guard: status unknown
Second imp:{2} The second imp's flight is seriously disrupted by the stasis bubble, he loses lift after being so abruptly stopped, and falls to the ground.
Tavern ratmen:{6} The ratmen, enraged by the elf interrupting them so, all leap onto him!
| Elica tried to jump up, but they grabbed him and pinned him down, tearing his flesh with their teeth!
| Large chunks of meat are torn out of the elf's body, he screams in pain as he is being practically eaten alive!
| He's seriously bleeding and in a lot of pain, but the ratmen didn't get at his vitals - yet.
Tavern batmen:{5} Several batmen that were near the tavern see JK and the dwarf and swarm them!
| JK is too slow, and three batmen charge at him,
| knocking him to the ground and striking at any gaps in the armor they can find, leaving deep torn wounds all across his body.
| The dwarf fares no better, and the sudden onset of two batmen catches him unaware.
| Weaponless, he can't protect himself, and the batmen punch and claw him to near death. A lot of his bones are broken,
| but he's not dying just yet.
Army of darkness:{5} The monsters attack the players in the keep!
| Rooster manages to hide using his monstrous features, and Frelock manages to defend with his TK field, but andrea and korora are swarmed!
| Quickly reactivating his powers, andrea unleashes a deadly torrent of electrical force, blasting everything and anything standing near!
| The bats and rats are scattering in fear, several critters have been toasted by the discharge.
| Meanwhile, korora employs a "meat grinder" defence strategy and spins around wildly, slicing and dicing any enemy that comes near!
| Trained by years of invading adventurers, most troglodytes manage to escape the striking blade, but some moles got too near and were badly cut up. Nearby golems display enough common sense not to go near.
GCS#1:{4} The spider standing near Rooster is suddenly hit by a flying enormous axe! Recovering from the loss of two legs, it limps off towards the tavern.
GCS#2:{2} Another spider is loitering some distance away from the keep, unaware of the goings-on.
GCS#3:{6} The giant spider near andrea suddenly rears up on its legs and shoots thick strands of webbing from its abdomen, covering a wide area!
| The blazing lightning cannot affect webbing, and andrea is thoroughly entangled in it. (-2 agility)
| Smaller creatures nimbly jump away from the webs.
GCS#4:{6} The downed, injured spider not far from the tavern decides to use its ranged weapon as well! Thick strands of webbing fly through the air towards JK!
| JK turns over on the ground, and quicky stands up, shoving two batmen into the webbing!
| Boksi is out of reach of the strands on his column.
| LASD manages to move away without letting the other spider out of his view.
| Again the smaller creatures, probably used to these attacks, quickly move out of the way of the webs.
GCS#5:{Auto-2} The spider stands still, mesmerized by LASD.
Winged demon#1:{5} The demon Gantolandon ran past recently flies up again, and throws a fireball at him!
| Gantolandon is hit by the fireball directly in the chest!
| The fire splatters across the bone plates of his armor, and harmlessly falls to the ground, barely singeing the hair off the exposed areas of his skin.
Winged demon#2:{3} A demon near korora takes an interest in him, and flies closer, but is wary of korora's giant sword, and does not attack.
Winged demon#3:{4} Another demon was not too far away from chaoticag. He flies over to the now-transparent stasis bubble and strikes at it with his claws! But the bubble is completely impervious to damage.
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Status after turn:
Boksi: Standing upright on top of a rock column above the destroyed tavern.
Wearing a rather singed reddish-black jacket of Karl Moebius leather, underwear, and slightly torn jean shorts. Holding a -Steel Full Helm- shaped like an anvil, with an intricate detail attached.
Unharmed.
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. Entangled in a lot of webs (-2 agi).
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+.
Unharmed.
Abilities:
Shrapnel Self.
Basic TK Healing.
Empowered by Lightning (currently Lightly Drained (-1 spd)). Special status:
Activated Selective Translator.
korora: Standing upright amidst the ruined 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's lesser form. Holding two large nuggets of gold (2kg), and one particularly large sapphire (0.5kg), one small key.
Several nasty scratches along the left upper arm.
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."
Standing upright just outside the ruined keep. In a transparent stasis bubble.
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.
Unharmed.
Abilities:
Basic TK Healing.
Extended TK Bolt.
TK Ripper Slash.
Gantolandon: Standing upright near the destroyed tavern.
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 piece of dwarven plate armor with the small key attached. Wielding a +Bone Axe+.
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.
Abilities:
Basic TK Healing(!). Special status:
Activated Selective Translator.
Frelock: Standing upright amidst the ruined keep. Defends with his TK bubble (attacked, -1 conc)
Wearing underwear, a
somewhat dirty and badly slashed up <<*Giant cave spider silk robe*>>, and +hippo leather sandals+. Wearing an amulet of a nature's power. 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.
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: Standing upright near the ravaged tavern. Pretends to be a golem (less likely to be attacked by monsters)
Naked. Wielding an Iron Battleaxe.
Flesh turned into iron, broken arrows in abdomen, right leg, and left shoulder. Upper body Damaged.
Abilities:
Enrage Other. Enrage Self.
Basic TK Healing(!). Special status:
Activated Selective Translator (2).
Steel scales.
Activated Wideband Omnisensor (normal)Extra:
Rollerblades in the forearms. Rooster: Standing upright amidst the ruined keep. Hides among the monsters using his mutated features. (less likely to be attacked)
Wearing underwear (probably), a
set of armor consisting of (severely torn up) hard black studded leather armor and greaves, broken iron plated high boots, and (somewhat burned) fur-quilted iron shoulderpads with horns. Wields a +Steel Guitar-Battleaxe+.
Unharmed, more or less. Two extra ears.
Four extra arms. Knees facing backwards. Three fingers on each arm.
Seven clawed toes on each foot.
Two noses.
Three horns on head. Head hair transformed into flexible spikes.
Body covered by patches of very hard tissue.
Ribcage fused into a solid shell. General -2 penalty to charisma when communicating with humanoid creatures.
Abilities: Can perform heavy metal. Odd regeneration power.
Better aural perception.
LASD: Standing upright near the destroyed tavern. Holds a giant spider immobile.
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*. Holding a small key and the relic container.
Several scars along the torso. Lightly bleeding hole in the left upper arm. Lightly bruised.
Abilities:
Power of Peace.
Power of Persuasion (suit bonus does not apply).Special status:
Peacekeeper.
Jay Kayell: Standing upright near the destroyed tavern.
Wearing purple stretchy shorts. Useless shreds of underwear on right arm. Holding a ring. Owns an
Iron Great Eclipse Axe, now lying in the keep ruins somewhere. The armor is armed with a collection of axes and swords (including one shimmering elven blade), and its steel clawed fists as well. The armor has 1 unspent bolt.
Unharmed. Dizzy from blood loss. (-1 agi, 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:
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. Now overrun by an army of darkness.
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.
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. A large hole is broken through a side wall. The door is toen down. The building took several ballista bolts during the battle. 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] The army of monsters seems to have been lessened a bit by your actions. However, you notice a large band of creatures not far off, walking together. You suspect they are walking together with the chief monster. Amidst the ruin of the tavern, Boksi manages to notice the green rug, still intact, and the panel on it is still intact as well.
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