Jesus, BFEL.
I mean, I was gonna say that Baldur kicked awesome ass in this one, but then you had to go and roll a fucking
8.
- Turn 16: Level 1 Derm -
Outnumbered, you valiantly (or foolishly) decide to face off against the myriad demonic creatures rather than fleeing for the possible safety of the village...Beat these demonic creatures into submission with my trusty staff! Focus on the ones my nearby teammates are fighting in particular, the one approaching Cyrus first of all.
You turn around, spotting the flaming demon-beast thing flailing at Cyrus. You growl and heft up your staff!
(5+1, 3) With an almighty crack, your staff slams into the beast’s arm, crunching
through the arm and into the ribs. There’s a horrific snapping sound as the beast’s humerus shatters like glass and its ribs cave inwards, slicing the poor thing’s right lung into so much casserole.
The dying, flaming beast is launched sideways; it smashes into another one of the creatures and both go tumbling into the undergrowth. You set yourself and wait for the inevitable counterattack when the whole place suddenly flares up with a fiery light...
Cyrus is just sorta staring at the light. There's a couple of dead monsters at his feet, charred beyond recognition.Find another demon and slash at it!
One of the beasts soars past you, but you see that Lyu has it quite handled. You turn back to face the forest. Where could they be?
There’s a skitter behind you. You turn. Two of the demonic Elf things are behind you, their yellowed eyes glazed over with madness. One eyes you up and down and licks its lips with a blackened tongue. You shudder. You heft your sword into your right hand and charge!
(2+1, 6) You stumble as you swing, so your swipe only nicks the one creature’s foot. You brace for the shock, but nothing happens. Weird. The monsters growl and swipe at you with their hands! (1+1, 1) One ragged hand scratches you across your face, dirty nails slashing across your eye. You scream in rage as you realise you can’t see out of your left side! (5+1, 3) The second one strikes your right arm, just near the shoulder, but you let it. The critter leaves itself open to a counterstrike! (5+2, 5) With a swipe you take both of its ragged, dirty hands off before booting it in the chest. It flies backwards, slams into a tree and just sorta… explodes.
Holy shit.
You turn so as to see the one creature left with your good eye, as crimson light pours out of the forest...
You're blinded in your left eye! You'll need to get it fixed, or suffer -2 to dodge rolls for attacks from your left. Or get an eyepatch and train your senses, I guess.Ok, just gotta concentrate, lightning is a power of wind magic right? Then I just need to use Earth Magic! That'll shut them up!
Focus power through my blade and stab it into the ground, making the Earth under their feet swallow them!
Concentrate… Concentrate… (3+1)You growl and focus on the three creatures in front of you. You draw your sword, calling on the power of the Earth, focusing your will on the very tip of the blade.
(6+2) (Oh shit) You slam the blade into the ground, releasing your will at the same time.
A rumbling, heaving wave of rock ripples out from your feet in every direction for thirty feet. Not done yet, you draw your sword up in a dramatic swing, howling your might into the forest. Crimson light pours out of the cracked, broken ground.
A second later, molten rock jets from the ground in a widening ripple around you. The heat is scorching, but you survive. The monsters, not so much.
(2) You scream and fall to your knees. A thousand tiny wounds split open all over your body and blood pours out sluggishly. If you don’t do something fast, you’ll probably bleed out. (In three turns!)On the upside, the monsters are too fucking terrified of you to come anywhere near you.
The forest goes dead quiet as every monster heads for the goddamn hills.On the downside, the huge wave of molten lava has kinda blocked you off. And set the forest on fire.
Ridiculous overpowered casting! +2 exp to Earth magic, +1 exp to Fire magic!Use Force magic to strengthen my staff and increase the force of its blows. Strike the demon with it, then flee some more.
You feel a sudden wave of heat come from behind you. You turn to behold liquid fire pouring out of the ground in an expanding, rippling wave. The monster behind you shrieks and vanishes into the undergrowth; you turn and growl. The wave of lava crests and breaks towards you; you focus force magic into your staff and slam it into the ground! (5+1) A bubble of force billows out from where your staff strikes the earth and the wave of lava is repulsed. Fires ignite around you, but the expanding force bubble crushes them. No lava encroaches for twenty feet around you.
(5) Somehow, you escape paying any price for the magic. You feel fine!Perfect Force casting! +1 exp!"Wots it going to be ya lily-livered treehuggers, I've fought plankton more fierce than you!"
Fire at the nearest demon, try to aim for center mass or head.if they come close, try to dodge and retaliate with my dirk.
"Wots it going to be ya lily-livered treehuggers, I've fought plankton more fierce than you!" you yell at a creature that’s just dropped from a tree in front of you. It cowers as you draw back your bow, but bolts before you can sight properly. “That’s right, you better run!”
You yell after it. Belatedly you notice that the scene has turned red; you turn to find lava sluggishly flowing out of the forest, cooling into rock as it does so. Huh.
Weird.
The carriage appears to be on fire from the intense heat, and small fires are burning in the forest where Thuun and Ekoka ran off to.
So, the monsters all ran from the sudden miniature volcano. The forest is on fire, but the fires are small. The lava is very quickly cooling on account of the seriously cold weather. Thuun is at Ground Zero, bleeding out. It's still far too hot to get within about twenty feet of him, but everywhere else is mostly okay. If a little on fire.
Lyu Brak (Harry Baldman)Profession: Priest
Status: Laying the beatdown
Inventory:Staff (Bronze-Capped)
Religious Necklace
Warm Priestly Robes and Pants
Warm Priestly Shoes
180 gold
Wounds/Status: You're perfectly healthy!
Abilities: [Boundlessly Cheerful] [The Good Priest] [Not that faithful] [Righteous Litany (2/3)]Baldur Bergfalk (USEC_OFFICER)Profession: Mercenary
Status: Murderising another demon creature
Inventory:Broken greatsword
Worn leather jerkin (and normal clothes)
Worn leather boots
Bear fur cloak300 gold
Wounds/Status: [Burned Left Hand (Palm) (8/8)] [Slashed left eye] Abilities: [Skilled Bargainer] [Guileless] [I'm Not Right Handed] [Righteous Litany (2/3)]Lao Thuun (BFEL)Profession: Warrior Mage
Status: Doing the Derm
Inventory: Blunted bronze sword
Leather armour and boots
Acolyte's Suncloak210 gold
Wounds/Status: [Thousands of Tiny Cuts Everywhere (4/3 to bleed out]Abilities:[Enduring] [Atoner] [Spellsword] [/color]
[Righteous Litany (2/3)]Spells:[Life Spell: Wisp] Magical Experience:[Ea: 0] [Wi: 0] [Fi: 0] [Wa: 0] [Li: 2] [Fo: -1] [Lt: 0] [Sh: 0] Felice Nasib (Pancaek)Profession: Seaman
Status: Scaring? off the monster. Not really, it was the lava.
Inventory: Repaired Shortbow
Seventeen Arrows
Razor-sharp DirkNautical Longcoat and Boots
313 gold
Wounds/Status: You're perfectly healthy!
Abilities: [Fearless] [Not a Landlubber] [Trick Shot] [Righteous Litany (2/3)]Ekoka (GreatWyrmGold)Profession: Wanderer
Status: Standing his ground against molten rock.
Inventory: Cracked shillelagh
Wanderer's Cloak
Sturdy Clothes and Boots
Length of Rope
Flint and Tinder
380 gold
Wounds/Status: No open wounds!
Abilities: [Survivalist] [Dual Focus] [Maladjusted to heat] [Guiding Spirit] [Righteous Litany (2/3)]Spells:
[Wind Spell: Alacrity]Magical Experience:[Ea: 0] [Wi: 1] [Fi: 0] [Wa: 0] [Li: 0] [Fo: 0] [Lt: 0] [Sh: 0] 
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