Alright, time for another update! You better be grateful for this!
Also, do note I'm not as attentive as some other people. If I took the time to go over these turns more often, you'd get fewer updates.
Anyway, MWAHAHAHAHAAA!!!Frederick VII: X
I grumble a bit in Danish about low-bred thieves, then look for and equip a large warhammer and a suit of chain mail armor.
5
Cobblestone: 4
Lord Teanscones Fordinner, Earl of York: X
I practice with my weapon, focusing on the two main points of looking lordly while doing so and getting better at killing stuff with it.
5
Cobblestone: 6
Great Bambini:
try and form some magic armor upon the Great Bambini
5
Familiar: 1
Cobblestone: 2, Damage: 5-1=4
Familiar Cobblestone: 1
Hans-Hans The Truculent: X
laugh about Lowpolygon and wait for the things to come.
6
Cobblestone: 5
Ivanor Denisovich: X
Find a pair of jeans, a baseball cap and a beat-stick. Equip all.
4
Cobblestone: 4
Alessandro 'Di Antony: X
Swish my rapier around a bit and read poetry aloud while doing it so everyone knows how cultured I am.
1, Dodge: 4+1=5
Cobblestone: 4+1=5
Mr. Erich the Interesting: X
Search for a beige business suit. After that, I wax my moustache.
5
Cobblestone: 5
Lowpolygon Blownaparte: X
I suppose it'll be in my best interest to get up and practice ninjutsu/taijutsu/whatever. Hadoken and Rasengan being top priorities.
5-1=4
Cobblestone: 6
Alfie:
I practice geomancy on the ground beneath the stones.
1, Consequences: 3, Dodge: 6
Cobblestone: 2, Damage: 2
Kin the Scribe: X
Look for a set of comfty leather armor, preferably something dark green. Equip whatever armor I might find.
Even if it's pink.
5
Cobblestone: 5
Turn the Second:
A slight sensation comes over all of you, as if you had passed some invisible checkpoint. Perhaps it is related to the mysterious, murderous cobblestones?
Hans-Hans, cheerful about how everything is going his way, laughs at Lowpolygons foolishness. His anger overcoming the pain in his calf and teeth, Lowpolygon takes his laughter to mean "Hey, if you need a target to practice upon, go ahead and use me!". Hans-Hans is too busy laughing to notice Lowpolygon staring intently at him with a look of concentration and/or constipation on his face, but he does just barely manage to notice the gob of blue energy hurled at him; enough that he's merely slightly singed by it.
Hans-Hans does not appreciate Lowpolygon using him as a target and starts shouting at him, but he is simply too fast for him to catch. In any event, those cobblestones will probably rise up again, and he decides to remain on guard against them.
Frederick VII and Kin the Scribe both search through the racks for whatever useful equipment they can scrounge up. King Frederick finds a suit of chainmail and a two-handed warhammer. It resembles a normal, construction-use hammer a lot, with a flat head on one end and a spike on the other. Kin, meanwhile, finds a suit of leather armor, although it's a bit on the thin side. He also finds this grassy-green cloak. It's nothing special, but he likes green so he takes it.
After the shock of the cobblestones, Ivanor wanders away in search of clothes to hide his indecency. He finds some rough jeans, and a tattered baseball cap. He also decides to pick up a billy club he spots lying near one of the fallen shelves.
Mr. Erich dislikes his current clothes and so deftly acquires a more formal suit for his formal demeanor. The pale clothes of his suit create a lot of contrast with his dark cloak, and make him a little interesting to look at.
Alessandro and Lord Teanscones decide to have a little sparring match, like gentlemen. However, the match is quite unfair, pitting a lightly armored man with nothing but a fearsomely big headdress and a rapier against a heavily armored knight swinging a sword capable of cutting a man in half. Alessandro further complicates things for him by trying to recite poetry at Lord Teanscones; not only is it rather terrible poetry, he also can't concentrate on the fighting. Several times he almost gets a limb hacked off, but he always makes a narrow excape.
Back in the center, the mages are back for another go. The Great Bambini, attempts to summon upon himself a field of magical energies to shield himself from harm and asks his familiar to help him with this task. He acquires a metallic breastplate to act as a focus and starts the incantation, using some of the blood that's bled from his cut as a catalyst. He then sits down on his knees and starts his invocation; while his previous incantation was rough and brutal-sounding, this one sounded more like singing.
His imp obeys his orders unhesistatingly. Since he doesn't know how to help, though, he just channels as much magic as he can into the breastplate to improve the potency of the spell.
That was a bad idea.
A bright blue shimmer starts to form around the Great Bambini's body, but then suddenly strands of red start to invade that shimmer, looking far sharper than any shimmer should. The Great Bambini groans from the sudden pain and increased mental strain from this sudden influx of hellish power, but keeps it under control. The colors start merging and become more solid, less glowing. Eventually the invocation is over and the Great Bambini nearly collapsed from exhaustion. He is now wearing a dark purple-ish armour, with one pauldron having jagged spikes jutting out from it and the other one normal. For some reason, it's also British.
Alfie decides to try some geomancy on the ground beneath the cobblestones. He closes his eyes and focuses his magical senses, such as they are, through the stone and into the earth. And starts pondering. There's something strange about it. It's like his sight is somehow being jammed, the signals don't make sense...
Rrrumble...
Or. The ground. The ground is moving! The ground is moving upwards! Moving quickly, Alfie jumps backwards onto his back into an armor rack as a fountain of dirt geyers through the cracks between the cobblestones!
Well, that was harmless enough, but it was probably a safeguard against someone doing anything to the earth for some reason. He wonders why.
Alfie gets little time to ponder this, however, because the cobblestones are at it again! The stones flying up in the air send him flying as well, straight on to his fac.e He merely lands in the dirt, however, and quickly retreates onto one of the collapsed armor racks, where the cobblestones will simply go underneath.
The Great Bambini and his familiar are both in no postion to defend himself from the cobblestones. The imp recovers quickly from the trivial injuries inflicted upon him, but he'll have to wait until the cobblestones he's stuck under flies up again to do it. The Great Bambini isn't quite so resilient and it's probably only his armor that prevented him from getting a concussion. As it is, he's aching from some severe bruises and other aches.
The others do not get hit by the cobblestones, having been less surprised by them. Hans-Hans especially, who actually took a few dance steps while dodging them.
When the cobblestones have lain down, you notice they now face upwards again, each sandy-brown stone now bearing the number one emblazoned on it in crimson red.
Condition:
Normal
Inventory:
Undetermined Clothing
Suit of Chainmail(statistical bonus)
Warhammer(2H Weapon, ignores up to -2 of damage negation by armor)
Skills:
None
Condition:
Bruised
Inventory:
Undetermined Clothing
Field Plate(-1 to damage received)
Claymore(2H Weapon, +1 to damage dealt)
Skills:
Novice Swordsman(statistical bonus)
Condition:
Exhausted(-1 to all actions)
Pain(-1 to most actions)
Head wound(only a slight cut)
Inventory:
Undetermined Clothing
Magical Armour(-1 to damage received, annoyingly British)
Skills:
Summoner(significant statistical bonus)
Novice Blood Mage(statistical bonus)
Familiar: Qucikyl the Imp
Condition: Squashed
Inventory: None
Skills: Hellpower(fire generation and various other effects), Regeneration(regenerates non-lethal injuries easily)
Condition:
Singed
Inventory:
Undetermined Clothing
Katana(1H Weapon, statistical bonus)
Composite Armor(statistical bonus)
Skills:
Novice Mugger(statistical bonus)
Novice Dodger(statistical bonus)
Condition:
Normal
Inventory:
Cheese-stained Wifebeater
Rough Jeans
Tattered Baseball Cap
Billy Club(statistical bonus)
Skills:
None
Condition:
Normal
Inventory:
Undetermined Clothing
Leather Armor(+1 to dodge)
Rapier(1H Weapon, statistical bonus)
Great Headdress(statistical bonus/malus, depending on the situation)
Skills:
Incompetent Poet(statistical malus)
Condition:
Normal
Inventory:
Beige Business Suit
Swordcane(1H Weapon)
Navy Blue Cape
Skills:
None
Condition:
Bruised
Chipped Teeth
Cut on left calf
Pain(-1 to physical actions)
Inventory:
Undetermined Clothing
Skills:
Martial Artist(significant statistical bonus)
Condition:
Normal
Inventory:
Undetermined Clothing
Skills:
Novice Summoner
Novice Geometrymancer
Novice Geomancer
Condition:
Normal
Inventory:
Undetermined Clothing
Shortbow(2H Ranged Weapon)
Quiver(13 Arrows)
Leather Armor(+1 to dodge)
Green Cloak
Skills:
None
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