[pnpgm] Game Update #265- File #1546 - The Talisman
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HT Aliaver/Player Character Name Type Status/Notes Sex
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R1.John Haight...........Arawn.............Druid .Normal/Alfar Ma
??.Chris Wells...........Ben'dar...........Warrior.Normal/Human Ma
R4.Tom Corckett..........Caladan...........Wizard Normal/Human Ma
W2.Marcel Liberty........Chion.............Sailor..Normal/Human Ma
W3.Ryan Torres...........Farseeker.........Warrior.Normal/Human Ma
--.Tobie Bonahoom........Fremea............Sidh....Normal/Faerry Fe
R2.Mark Murtha...........Kell..............Trader..Normal/Human..Ma
R1.David Sanders.........Kiet.Sunan........Acrobat Normal/Human Ma
R4.J H Hooten............Raban.Usherwood...Bard....Normal/Human..Ma
W2.Robert Maxwell........Strie'bog.........Bard....Normal/Human..Ma
W4.Wout Broere...........Unali.............Ninja...Normal/Human Fe
R1 John.Stowman..........Will..............Hunter..Normal/Human..Ma
R4.Alex Koponen..........Z'leyra...........Healer..Normal/Human Fe
R1 NPC...................Zhou Kiwat........Noble...Normal/Human..Ma
NPC...................Captain.Lin.......Warrior.Normal/Human..Ma
Animals: Corona [Eagle] Z'leyra, Tef'wo (Horse) Ben'dar,
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Game Update #265 in sequence (file #1546]
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[Recap]
From Fremea: [Re: Actions]
Fremea will take a shot at the flying creature, hopefully before
it gets out over the lava.
GM: Ack.
From Kiet: [Re: Actions]
Scott,
What you did with Kiet was just fine. If he had the time he'd
try a quick SF on the flyer, but it's probably out of range
anyway. Kiet was too distracted by the Vong in front of him
to notice the flyer.
If the excrement strikes the rotating air displacement device,
Kiet will cast his flight spell to get out of there and grab
Kell to gowith.
GM: Ack. Yeah too late for the SF :< Wasn't seeing behind you.
From Z'leyra: [Re: Actions]
Z'leyra brings her staff to hand as she considers what to do
about Will. Oblivion him for later attention? Fine if his
spirit hasn't left his body...not so great if his spirit has
already left? Let his spirit continue on its journey after
death? Or try to bring him back and if so, how?
She considers using the bezoar if a death poison was involved,
but she doubts it. The Castor d'fay would make him immune to
acid, but the acid already seems to have done its damage. The
Unicorn Horn would not help any more than her casting of a
Healing spell would. Someone casting a blessing to boost his
constitution would help, but she doesn't know the spell. Same
with the spell to bring the dead back to life...but maybe it
isn't needed yet.
So as she uses a bandage to clear the acid she readies her
spells:
Orient Self EL0
Purification EL2
Healing EL3
Then she tries to get his blood moving and tries to force a
breath of air into his lungs.
GM: Ack. Your talking at least 4-5 phases more. The spells,
bandage and first aid. That could be another 15 seconds
without pulse.
From Unali: [Re: Actions]
With the last Vong down, Unali is seen to draw a deep...
If he seems truly dead and his armor harmless, she starts to
search his body for the brain control device. While looking
around his neck for a talisman, gloves, strange headdress and
then in pockets. If needed she cuts away the armor from his
body with a dagger. During this she says out loud:
"We need to control the Brain. Time is running out....
GM: Ack.
From Kell: [Re: Actions]
Kell sighs wearily, happily grabbing Kiet's shoulder and
giving him a weary grin. "That was the easy part," ...
GM: Ack.
From Arawn: [Re: From email]
If not then he was prepared
to Translocate the Outcast to the ledge should he fall from the
sky or transport the party to the entrace of the Brain Chamber
before it was too late.
OOC: Elvish Empathy and will try to take advantage of his
Rhetoric and Influence Chance to convince Omini to help/trust
Arawn and the party.
If he is shot out of the sky Arawn is prepared to cast
Translocation to (hopefully) bring him safely to the passage
between the Throne Room and the ledge where Arawn and Fremea
are located
GM: Ack.
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[New Stuff]
[Augado 10th, 1634TH]
[Location: Middle Katai Plains]
[ Mountains west of Pamau]
[Time: 3:27:02pm - 2:27:17pm]
Z'leyra finds no pulse on the woodsman. Who would have thought
recently the man was trumping through the woods hunting with his
home made buckskins. Now he is dead on the ground in a once
extinct volcano now grumbling and choking as if waking up from
a magical sleep. After years of study and plenty of endless
patients the Healer figures that Will has maybe 30-50% chance
on average maybe a 40% chance of survival with more magical
healing. This would be his third treatment and if that fails
his chance would increase another 10% or so. It is always
impossible to determine odds. Someone like Raban or Farseeker
could probably take dozens of healings with their massive
constitutions. But someone like Xian or Lin might not take
but a couple at most.
Her teacher always said time is critical. It has been maybe
a dozen seconds, she admits to losing track of time, when he
fell. but a human can survive in a ice river for minutes
and still survive. But if they are weak already then that
decreases their survival time. Her instinct is to heal
Will fast without waiting. But she knows with his low chance
of survival that first aid will only help. Who knows it
might even increase his survival chance by 10 or 20%.
Z'leyra opens her satchel and quickly brings out her bandages
and begins work on the acid wound in Will's chest. She finds
the action cumbersome as the jagged armor, though in reality
is transmuted, could slice her own hand to shreds.
Meanwhile at the stairs Fremea hops onto the railing and
fires a quick shot at the fleeing flyer. The arrow goes
toward it but at the last instant the creature dips ever
so slightly down and the arrow goes to the left of the outcast.
With the last Vong down, Unali is seen to draw a deep breath
and then quickly glance around to see who is surviving. All,
except maybe Will? Seeing Z'leyra tend to Will, she jumps up
and sprints towards where Shimara was killed.
Unali first stops at Raban to check him. She can tell he
is bleeding from the back badly but he is still conscious.
The giant could be hit by a mountain probably and still live.
She pats the giant on the chest and gives a quick smile of
confidence. Then moves onto Shimara.
Unali keeps a dagger ready when she turns the body over, wary
of any last surprises he or his armor may have left.
With magical dagger in hand she cuts the leather off the
leader. She ignores the mess that was once the head. She
knows who to call when needing to grind grapes for wine.
She takes a second to look at the crab armor it seems dead.
But she slices upward toward his throat and then the dagger
flashes a warning. She withdraws and the antenna of the
crab armor head flinches side to side. A couple of its small
pinchers try to nip her but she quickly makes diced crab of
the beast. Then she continues to cut the leather away.
As she cuts Unali speaks out loud, "We need to control the
Brain. Time is running out. Where is that thing."
Then she spots it. It is tucked into the leather on his
left upper ribs. A simple leather strap hands from his neck
but is easily hidden by all the thick leather. She eases
the item out and taps it just in case it has some surprise.
But it seems dormant. With a gloves hand she yanks the
talisman away from the body breaking the leather strap.
Unali raises the talisman eye level and stands. The
item looks like a horse hove with a very circular shape
with a bit of ellipse bottom jutting slightly off the main
circle. It is brown and red in color that almost looks
like a baby organ for some animal. It almost looks like
a goat stomach in some regards. There are veins and tissue
all over it. In the center is a raised object the size of
a copper coin, circular in shape. It almost looks like
a eye but the "eye" is opaque like a pearl. On the back
it is completely level with more of its animal like texture.
with the veins and tissue. A bit of muscle looking section
is also seen on the back.
Caladan watches Unali dangle the talisman and it does
seem to be like The Claw buried with the dead Vong on
the Zen'da plains and now at the Dark Lands citadel. Now
that it is found how to use it? His math skills aren't
that great but if he can judge the party only has a couple
minutes at max to get back to the brain cave. If only
some wizard could come up with a time tracking spell. Place
it in a wrist device he could make a lot of gold.
Kell sighs wearily, happily grabbing Kiet's shoulder and
giving him a weary grin. "That was the easy part," he quips.
He orders Rocky up out of the ground and ask Kiet, "I'm
exhausted, can you send him back for me?" pointing at the
Elemental.
Kiet looks up at the towering rock and wonders what
might happen if he failed to send that request?
Hearing Unali he shakes his head, knowing the adrenaline is
leaving him and he's getting weaker and less sharp. "Yes we
do," as he quickly ambles over to help Unali search for the
control device. Knowing that Arawn has a special connection
but not knowing where he is, he calls out, "Arawn! We need
you here!"
Lin sheathes his sword and looks around the carnage. He
shakes his head. Just yesterday he was hunting the scum
that use magic. Now these scum - these people - have
done a great thing. But what to do now. His duty is clear
but his honor is as well. Then he turns to see the unnamed
wizard staring at him.
The unnamed wizard raises a hand and begins to mouth a word.
But Farseeker grips his hand and lowers it. "What are you
doing?"
"He is wearing the colors of the military that hunt us
down. His kind killed many friends. Now it my time to
return the favor." The unnamed wizard glares at Farseeker.
"What's your name son?" Farseeker asks.
"Kai Cawti." He looks back at Captain Lin.
"He helped us. So for now settle or my friend there will
ensure your comfort." Farseeker nods to Kiet who is places
a used rope onto his rope.
Kai shakes his head in disgust but continues to stare.
He realizes that they still have to escape this place. Maybe
then he can deal with him.
Ben'dar watches Kai with amusement.
Raban looks up at Unali and the talisman. So far so good.
But now maybe a bit of sleep. He shuts his eyes.
Chion ignores the confrontation and walks toward the pit.
He sees Will being worked on. Maybe his skills may be
needed but resurrection takes much more time. He reaches
into his pocket and pulls out his special stone. Maybe
he should finally use that for Will?
Z'leyra casts the healing spell onto Will. The green
energy begins to wind down to the great wound and fill
it with the healing magical aura. Tissue begins to reform
and the bond begins to mend. Z'leyra can see the body
was healed by 2/3rd or more of its damage. But Z'leyra
places her staff back down and begins to do chess compressions
and gives q quick breath of air to see if Will will return
to his brain.
Chion claps his hands. He knows it will take too long to
run to the brain cave. "Ready for a quick jump to the
cave as he looks at Unali. Jump aboard!"
Arawn could hear Kell call out even as he watched the flyer
whizz away from him bearing the odd Outcast. Lacking the time to
discover Kell's dilemma he rushed to the railing even as
Fremea lifted her bow. His mind raced to find a way to secure
the Failsafe and to save both worlds, one from physical
destruction and the other from downward spiritual and cultural
destruction. Spells flitted through his mind, the Alfar
wondering which would prove most useful, whether to move one or
another through space, to take control, or to save a falling
Vong should the sharp-eyed faerry take out the flyer. But as
each raced through his thoughts he finally opted for something
simpler, hoping for once that it might be enough.
Calling upon the empathic abilities which had been blessed to
Alfar and Elf he reached out to the Vong Outcast, hoping to
allow the Vong to sense his own sincerity in helping both worlds
as he called out.
"The Outcast Rebels contacted us! Please, stop! For your
people, for Rua Nup'wang who died for peace! Help us...
please."
Arawn could only hope that the Outcast would believe him or
recognize the dead Outcast's name.
Omini can hear the strange creature behind him. He then
hears Rua's name. His heart flutters as he recalls the
outcast. He risks his own life to get him water when
Shimara beat him badly when he just laughed at some failure
the Shapers had done. For a second Omini even considers
turning back. But he knows that time is running out. If
he is to flee he has to make the portal. It is his only
chance off this doomed world.
Now the flyer is about halfway to the otherside and
still moving toward the brain cave. Fremea knows no
arrow will reach that far over 400 feet away.
A third breath of air and Z'leyra slaps Will again to
see if he will respond. Still nothing. She begins to
feel despair as it may have been too late. She gives
another quick chest compression and a fourth breath of
air. As her lips lock she feels Will's own lips
respond and a tongue flicks out. Will blinks his
eyes and reaches up to grab Z'leyra's arm wondering
what angel or demons from the abyss has decided to
kiss him.
Actions? Comments?
Next Update....Friday...
GM: I'm told the last update didn't get out via the list?
It had the CPs earned by all. If so you can view
it on the site. This was a quick update. So what
is the plan now? More healing? IF so who wants
to be healed? Who will return to the brain cave?
Other actions?
GM: Spells active
Will - Armor Transmutation, Mind Shield
Raban - Bless (OCV)
Farseeker - Bless (OCV)
Arawn - Bless (OCV)
Unali - Mind Shield
Kell - Elemental Powers/Pact, Summoning?
Fremea - Mind Shield, Invisibility
Z'leyra - Mind Shield, Bless (Con), Clairvoyance
* = Soon to end (next update?]. I may NOT post this
info unless I remember to do so. :)
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