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<blockquote data-quote="skotothalamos" data-source="post: 6461240" data-attributes="member: 83398"><p><strong>Cauldron Born</strong></p><p></p><p>The three witchoil golems were closing in and the constables had just left their weapons behind at Leone Quital’s request. As the massive doors began to shut, separating the constables and their weapons, Xambria manifested and began shuttling items out the doors. The golems surrounded the constables, but nearly everyone was able to escape their trap:</p><p></p><p>Alienor ran for the corner of the massive room, taking cover behind some crates. Cazara launched herself through the air in complete defiance of gravity and soared to the shoulder of the slumbering colossus, gliding in as though suspended by invisible wires. IronPeak withstood the storm of hits from the trio of golems. James and Summer ran for a nearby lift to take them to the colossus the slow way. Malkie turned invisible and made for the other lift. At the top of that lift was a door to what seemed to be offices or a control room, and she meant to find Leone Quital and pay him back for her nearly-forgotten murder in another reality… or something… Malkie’s relationship to reality was always interesting.</p><p></p><p>The lead golem, Colin, seemed jovial enough, as he and his “men” took on IronPeak. “Robot Grampa” Alexander Grappa tried to talk them down, explaining who he was and that he had helped create them and that these people were here to help, but they would have none of it. When Colin tried to re-enact the Battle of Mount Associa by collapsing upon IronPeak like an avalanche, she recognized the gambit and was able to sidestep him. Still, against three mechanical men, she was no match. James teleported back to her side to get her back on her feet, leaving Summer and Cazara to awaken the colossus on their own.</p><p></p><p>Cazara stepped close to the colossus’s ear, and held out her messenger feather to its ear, urging Summer to talk to the the thing through the feather and tell it who she was. Cazara felt a rumble of machinery under her feet as the colossus began to power up.</p><p></p><p>Just as Malkie was reaching the upper door, it opened up and out came Lorcan Kell, surrounded by several henchmen and a shadowy figure. “I thought I gave you folks a warning!” he shouted, leering about for something to kill. Malkie flew into action, harassing the group of six enemies by herself, constantly flitting in and out of visibility and corporeality, leaving Kell’s team with nothing to fight back against. </p><p></p><p>Two of Kell’s pistoliers made for Cazara’s position atop the colossus, where she had now been joined by Summer. They fired their guns at the two, who managed to scamper across to the far shoulder, using its massive head for cover. The colossus began to stir, and one movement of its arm crashed into the access bridge the pistoliers were advancing across, sending one of them flying to his death.</p><p></p><p>IronPeak had defeated the two lesser golems, with considerable assistance from Alienor, sniping from behind cover. Only Colin remained. He fell to one knee, then toppled over backwards, spewing witchoil everywhere. “An excellent tactical exercise,” he said, “Let’s call it a draw!” James and Grappa rushed to his side. Grappa was convinced that if they restored Colin to health, he would join their cause.</p><p></p><p>Kell and the rest of his gang rode their lift down toward IronPeak and James’s position. Malkie continued to harry them, but was running low on resources. Soon, she would be out of invisibility potions and need to make an escape. As she contemplated this, Leone Quital came flying out of the door the Kell had exited moments earlier. Quital soared to the middle of the room, also entirely in disrespect of the laws of gravity. He spied Summer atop the colossus and hurled misogynist insults at her, followed by a series of I-beams. Summer took the impact massive bar of metal, but managed to hold on to the colossus, avoiding the 300-foot fall off of its shoulder. </p><p></p><p>Alienor focused her scope on Quital and pulled out a special bullet enchanted with his name. The bullet was carved from Alienor’s own horn to get through Quital’s mastery of magnetic forces. She fired, but he managed to deflect the bullet with sheet of metal he levitated into position just in time. The bullet still punched through the shield and struck Quital, but he had avoided the worst of it.</p><p></p><p>James and Grappa got Colin back on his feet and he agreed to fight alongside IronPeak, as she had been such an excellent training partner, and any friend of Grappa’s was a friend of Colin’s. Grappa hurried to the far lift and started his way up to the colossus.</p><p></p><p>The colossus was now responding to Summer’s commands and she instructed it to attack everyone on the lift where Kell and his gang were fighting Malkie. Malkie heard this and jumped up the wall out of the way. Unfortunately, before she could down he last potion of invisibility, the Obscurati assassin was upon her. She teleported Malkie back down to the floor of the lift, right next to Kell. He grinned. “Time to settle those debts.” He hacked at her with his machete, and stuck a couple of daggers in her for good measure. Malkie was dead, again… for something like the fifth time? Had she at last met her fate? Would she return from death again as an amorphous pile of goo animated by sheer stubbornness? Does death mean anything in this world? These are questions for another day…</p><p></p><p>Kell triumphantly exited his lift and charged at IronPeak, eager to kill his fourth RHC constable this week. Colin interceded, smashing Kell in the face. Alienor followed up with a bullet with Kell’s name on it. The force of the shot knocked Kell backward, and he fell to his death in the colossus construction pit.</p><p></p><p>Quital finally hit Summer solidly with an I beam, after four or five tries. Summer’s unconscious form fell from the colossus’s shoulder. In a rage, it swatted Quital out of the air and tried to climb toward the ceiling. Cazara repelled down its back, arriving at the floor ahead of Summer, whose Boots of Feather Falling had saved her from a fatal fall.</p><p></p><p>The colossus tore the roof off the place, sending massive chunks of stone and steel cascading into the room below. Cazara grabbed Summer and hunkered down in an access tunnel at the base of the construction pit. James opened an access hatch to a tunnel in the corner of the room, allowing himself and IronPeak to similarly hide out from the collapse of the structure. Alienor and Kell’s men were not so lucky, nor were Quital and Grappa.</p><p></p><p>The colossus tore through the roof and destroyed the many wards keeping the facility in the Bleak Gate. As it pulled itself up out of the mountain, the colossus looked down upon the city of Flint. The entire facility had moved into the real world. After a moment of looking upon this new world, the colossus began to explore, causing an avalanche as it stepped down Cauldron Hill. It wandered off into the night, leaving the constables to be recovered by search and rescue teams.</p><p></p><p>Alienor survived the collapse, but Kell’s men were all killed. Once the rescue teams dug everyone out, they discovered that Grappa and Quital were missing.</p><p></p><p>The next day was supposed to bring the Danor-Risur peace summit, but surely dealing with the colossus would be a higher priority…</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="skotothalamos, post: 6461240, member: 83398"] [b]Cauldron Born[/b] The three witchoil golems were closing in and the constables had just left their weapons behind at Leone Quital’s request. As the massive doors began to shut, separating the constables and their weapons, Xambria manifested and began shuttling items out the doors. The golems surrounded the constables, but nearly everyone was able to escape their trap: Alienor ran for the corner of the massive room, taking cover behind some crates. Cazara launched herself through the air in complete defiance of gravity and soared to the shoulder of the slumbering colossus, gliding in as though suspended by invisible wires. IronPeak withstood the storm of hits from the trio of golems. James and Summer ran for a nearby lift to take them to the colossus the slow way. Malkie turned invisible and made for the other lift. At the top of that lift was a door to what seemed to be offices or a control room, and she meant to find Leone Quital and pay him back for her nearly-forgotten murder in another reality… or something… Malkie’s relationship to reality was always interesting. The lead golem, Colin, seemed jovial enough, as he and his “men” took on IronPeak. “Robot Grampa” Alexander Grappa tried to talk them down, explaining who he was and that he had helped create them and that these people were here to help, but they would have none of it. When Colin tried to re-enact the Battle of Mount Associa by collapsing upon IronPeak like an avalanche, she recognized the gambit and was able to sidestep him. Still, against three mechanical men, she was no match. James teleported back to her side to get her back on her feet, leaving Summer and Cazara to awaken the colossus on their own. Cazara stepped close to the colossus’s ear, and held out her messenger feather to its ear, urging Summer to talk to the the thing through the feather and tell it who she was. Cazara felt a rumble of machinery under her feet as the colossus began to power up. Just as Malkie was reaching the upper door, it opened up and out came Lorcan Kell, surrounded by several henchmen and a shadowy figure. “I thought I gave you folks a warning!” he shouted, leering about for something to kill. Malkie flew into action, harassing the group of six enemies by herself, constantly flitting in and out of visibility and corporeality, leaving Kell’s team with nothing to fight back against. Two of Kell’s pistoliers made for Cazara’s position atop the colossus, where she had now been joined by Summer. They fired their guns at the two, who managed to scamper across to the far shoulder, using its massive head for cover. The colossus began to stir, and one movement of its arm crashed into the access bridge the pistoliers were advancing across, sending one of them flying to his death. IronPeak had defeated the two lesser golems, with considerable assistance from Alienor, sniping from behind cover. Only Colin remained. He fell to one knee, then toppled over backwards, spewing witchoil everywhere. “An excellent tactical exercise,” he said, “Let’s call it a draw!” James and Grappa rushed to his side. Grappa was convinced that if they restored Colin to health, he would join their cause. Kell and the rest of his gang rode their lift down toward IronPeak and James’s position. Malkie continued to harry them, but was running low on resources. Soon, she would be out of invisibility potions and need to make an escape. As she contemplated this, Leone Quital came flying out of the door the Kell had exited moments earlier. Quital soared to the middle of the room, also entirely in disrespect of the laws of gravity. He spied Summer atop the colossus and hurled misogynist insults at her, followed by a series of I-beams. Summer took the impact massive bar of metal, but managed to hold on to the colossus, avoiding the 300-foot fall off of its shoulder. Alienor focused her scope on Quital and pulled out a special bullet enchanted with his name. The bullet was carved from Alienor’s own horn to get through Quital’s mastery of magnetic forces. She fired, but he managed to deflect the bullet with sheet of metal he levitated into position just in time. The bullet still punched through the shield and struck Quital, but he had avoided the worst of it. James and Grappa got Colin back on his feet and he agreed to fight alongside IronPeak, as she had been such an excellent training partner, and any friend of Grappa’s was a friend of Colin’s. Grappa hurried to the far lift and started his way up to the colossus. The colossus was now responding to Summer’s commands and she instructed it to attack everyone on the lift where Kell and his gang were fighting Malkie. Malkie heard this and jumped up the wall out of the way. Unfortunately, before she could down he last potion of invisibility, the Obscurati assassin was upon her. She teleported Malkie back down to the floor of the lift, right next to Kell. He grinned. “Time to settle those debts.” He hacked at her with his machete, and stuck a couple of daggers in her for good measure. Malkie was dead, again… for something like the fifth time? Had she at last met her fate? Would she return from death again as an amorphous pile of goo animated by sheer stubbornness? Does death mean anything in this world? These are questions for another day… Kell triumphantly exited his lift and charged at IronPeak, eager to kill his fourth RHC constable this week. Colin interceded, smashing Kell in the face. Alienor followed up with a bullet with Kell’s name on it. The force of the shot knocked Kell backward, and he fell to his death in the colossus construction pit. Quital finally hit Summer solidly with an I beam, after four or five tries. Summer’s unconscious form fell from the colossus’s shoulder. In a rage, it swatted Quital out of the air and tried to climb toward the ceiling. Cazara repelled down its back, arriving at the floor ahead of Summer, whose Boots of Feather Falling had saved her from a fatal fall. The colossus tore the roof off the place, sending massive chunks of stone and steel cascading into the room below. Cazara grabbed Summer and hunkered down in an access tunnel at the base of the construction pit. James opened an access hatch to a tunnel in the corner of the room, allowing himself and IronPeak to similarly hide out from the collapse of the structure. Alienor and Kell’s men were not so lucky, nor were Quital and Grappa. The colossus tore through the roof and destroyed the many wards keeping the facility in the Bleak Gate. As it pulled itself up out of the mountain, the colossus looked down upon the city of Flint. The entire facility had moved into the real world. After a moment of looking upon this new world, the colossus began to explore, causing an avalanche as it stepped down Cauldron Hill. It wandered off into the night, leaving the constables to be recovered by search and rescue teams. Alienor survived the collapse, but Kell’s men were all killed. Once the rescue teams dug everyone out, they discovered that Grappa and Quital were missing. The next day was supposed to bring the Danor-Risur peace summit, but surely dealing with the colossus would be a higher priority… [/QUOTE]
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